"For you, the gun-wounded, the gunned down, / and the loved ones who were left behind, / we speak in love / and we don’t go quietly."  --Da’Shawn Mosley, “In the Mourning”

"May we build a kinder land / where our children understand: / Every child here matters more / than the guns we clamor for."  --Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, “A Hymn For People Called To Do More Than Sing and Pray”

“Truth is something that is always new. Therefore the mind cannot come to it with a conclusion, an opinion or a judgment. The mind must be free for truth to be."  --Jiddu Krishnamurti

"I was born with the same gift from God we are all born with—the impulse to reach out and lessen the suffering of another human being."  --Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine (2018)

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”  -- Roald Dahl

"Whether you believe in autonomous ghosts and spirits or not, it is difficult not to at least think of the spectral echoes of those whose pasts we retrace as we move through the spaces we share. As such, paradoxically, it isn’t necessarily the presence of the spirits of place that haunt us but their absence, and as long as we have the clues with which to construct them, ghosts will always be ready, just waiting to emerge."  --Richard Maclean Smith, Unexplained, p. 227

“Love feels no burden,

thinks nothing of trouble,

attempts what is above its strength,

pleads no excuse of impossibility."

--Thomas à Kempis