Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Old friends are memories personified.

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail