"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

C.S. Lewis

“No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?”

William Wilberforce