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Some quotes I find expressive of my feelings about religion, if not life itself. (But probably just religion.)"There has been some expression on the part of our colleagues that we ought to remove the sense of guilt from those who under necessity violate the Sabbath law. It is psychologically an impossible demand. Whenever a person breaks a pattern of life which he deems vital to his life, he will feel uncomfortable, he will experience a sense of guilt. That sense of guilt Jews feel when they break the Sabbath is an echo of a claim which the Sabbath still has over their souls. Its presence is our opportunity to build towards positive observance. Should even the sense of guilt depart when we break the Sabbath, then will its hold over the emotional life of our people be altogether broken. No, our real problem is not the sense of guilt some of our people feel when they break the law, but the breaking of the law which produces it." - Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, from "The Sabbath Halachah - Travel and the Use of Electricity""To be, in the twentieth century, a popular novelist of the seventeeth seemed to him a diminution. To be, in some way, Cervantes and reach the Quixote seemed less arduous to him - and, consequently, less interesting - than to go on being Pierre Menard and reach the Quixote through the experiences of Pierre Menard." From Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges.What's not to love about Jewish teddy bear dressed in yellow? Nothing, that's what.