Faith is the basis of the path, the mother of virtue; it nourishes all roots of goodness. — Wu-chien I’ve tried but I can find very little on the life of Wu-chien, but the above quote is famous. I used it once when a man asked me on the sidewalk, “Are you a man of…

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I learned that life on a pedestal is cold, hard, unforgiving, and best avoided. — Tori Murden McClure, A Pearl In the Storm. Tori McClure writes that when she was two, she went on a mission to scale a four foot pedestal in her parent’s entryway. One day she made her way up, but she learned it’s a…

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