The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. – Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims

It is… axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. – W. H. Auden