A faithful friend is a strong defense.
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
~Apocrypha
Is there some meaning to this life?
What purpose lies behind the strife?
Whence do we come, where are we bound?
These cold questions echo and resound
through each day, each lonely night.
We long to find the splendid light
that will cast a revelatory beam
upon the meaning of the human dream.
~The Book of Counted Sorrows
Courage, love, friendship,
compassion, and empathy
lift us above the simple beasts
and define humanity.
~The Book of Counted Sorrows