My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
The business of books is the business of life.
Give what you can, take what you need.
I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.
We do not judge great art. It judges us.
I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.
You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.