Jeff

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love...We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.”
― George MacDonald, Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood