Spiritual Quote of the Day (Edwin O’Connor, on ‘The Essential Goodness of Man’)

“[W]hile only a fool can look around him and smile serenely in unwatered optimism, nevertheless the wonder of it all is to me the frequency with which kindness, the essential goodness of man does break through, and as one who has received his full measure of that goodness, I can say that for me, at least, it is in the long succession of these small, redemptive instants, just as much as in the magnificence of heroes, that the meaning and the glory of man is revealed.”—Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish-American novelist Edwin O’Connor (1918-1968), The Edge of Sadness (1961)