We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. – William Ellery Channing, “Charge for the Ordination of Rev. Robert C. Waterston”

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

The doctors tell us of a physical disease called fatty degeneration of the heart… there is a moral malady—fatty degeneration of the soul; sooner or later it attacks every man, however noble his career, who puts self forward in his aims; who values fame because a personal possession. – Frank Lee Benedict, The Price She Paid, 1882