2008 
If you have humans who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have humans who will deal likewise with their fellow humans.
St Francis of Assisi – quoted in “The Life by St Bonaventura”
Our duty as people is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow, grow’.
The Talmud
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
- Meister Eckhart
The Goddess of Mercy has a thousand hands – and needs them all.
- A Japanese proverb
A course of experimental physiology in which brutes are agonised to exhibit facts already established, is a disgrace to the country that permits it.
- John Elliotson, MD, FRS, 1791-1868