God, I thank You for those rare souls who lift us when we are laid low by the sheer envy and malice by which some people poison their lives and the lives of others. For the people I meet each day who light up the world with simple gestures of humanity and decency. For the friends who stood by me in tough times, for the mentors who believed in me more than I believed in myself, and for the teachers who encouraged me to think and question, teaching me the difference between truth and mere intellectual fashion.
Jonathan Sacks