“The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes.”

“Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest”

“Grace just is. Nobody can explain it, and it's not something you can deserve. Whether you recognize it or not, whether you feel grateful for it or not, it just is. Guilty or innocent, condemned or redeemed, when you think that you can't go on, and when you think you've already gone on, grace is wider and deeper than you think, and it can change far more that you ever imagined.There is no place where anything begins or ends, but by grace, everything comes in it's time.”

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

“If abuse is to cease, and genuine love, respect, and trust are to be restored to the family picture- indeed to humanity's universal picture- then the ways that abuse is formed and perpetuated must be addressed. All that we deny of ourselves and bury beneath the surface, eventually becomes the rot which lays a brittle foundation for the next generation ”

“As a librarian I learned one of life’s great truths: you don’t have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.”

“What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?”