You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap.

Being formed into a nation takes some doing.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.