David

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is the essence of liberation. That is, freedom begins the moment we forget ourselves.”
― Dave Eggers, The Eyes & the Impossible

“One must command from each what each can perform. Authority is based first of all upon reason.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed