Joseph Butler

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.