All that Anybody Should Need

The root of the matter is a very simple and old-fashioned thing, a thing so simple that I am almost ashamed to mention it for fear of the derisive smile with which cynics will greet my words. The thing I mean – please forgive me for mentioning it – is love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a reason for courage, a guide to action, an imperative necessary for intellectual honesty. If you feel this, you have all that anybody should need in the way of religion.

~ Bertrand Russell