All our life is a miracle. Ourselves are the greatest wonder of all. I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you. I can believe in a manifestation of power beyond my own, because I am such a manifestation. There is not a minute in the twenty-four hours that is not filled with miracles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Book of Saints by Anne Gordon