Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. - Emily Dickinson

Getting to tell one story with a happy ending feels like a luxury this week; that there are two such items to share today, both involving long-time MCFL members, is a blessing indeed. 

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. - Thomas Jefferson

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give - Winston Churchill

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this. But where shall it be found . . .  if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women? - Pro-Life Feminist & Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne. -Robert Burns

"One man’s life touches so many others, when he’s not there it leaves an awfully big hole." - Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life

Each day is a gift from God. What you do with it is your gift to him. -- T.D. Jakes

Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, but still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute, you didn’t grow under my heart but in it. -- Fleur Conkling Heyliger

God has created me to do Him some definite service, He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another . . . He has not created me for naught. Saint John Henry Newman

The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man. -- Dr. Mildred Jefferson