“I can't have information I know would be of interest to someone and not share it.”

“Libraries represent the sole contemporary American institution with the potential for making available a wide-ranging, genuinely diverse spectrum of opinions, cultural expressions, and ideas in an environment that is commercial-free and huckster-free, a commons where people can gather and select, in an un-intimidating atmosphere, whatever interests them, delights them, or even repels them--whatever they want to know about.”

“Um, yeah. For instance, take, you know, take, for instance, the issue of -- I'm drawing a blank, and I hate it when I do that, particularly on television.-- potential McCain VP candidate Mark Sanford, asked on CNN to name differences in economic policy between Bush and McCain”

“You can't really live to make other happy. You also simply can't correct all the misperceptions about you or your spouse or your intentions on any given event or statement. (p.116)”

“I have always thought of love as more than just a feeling. To me love is a verb, an action you engage in every day through the things you do for those you cherish.”

“You can't change the feelingbut you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two”

“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish Proverb (p. 117)”