Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint AugustineDid my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
Saint AugustineWhen large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
Saint Augustine