"I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading."

"Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Od…"

"As for ‘Alī ibn Husayn , he cried over Husayn for twenty years ; never would any food be placed before him except that he would begin to weep."

"Sadly, almost with terror, I often looked at the threadlike path which I saw, lower down, winding in the valleys and disappearing between the mountains. The day would come when it would lead me back t…"

"As the French say, aimer est souffrir, to love is to suffer, and therefore, to say that love is essential to the Being of God is to say that in one way or another suffering is essential to his nature.…"