616 – “But I have always been struck, in America, by an emotional poverty so bottomless, and a terror of human life, of human touch, so deep, that virtually no American appears able to achieve any viable, organic connection between his public stance and his private life.”

–James Baldwin

300 – “Maybe the wolf is in love with the moon, and each month it cries for a love it will never touch.”

–anonymous

199 – “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, and honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

–Leo Buscaglia

116 – “I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”

– Seymour Glass in J D Salinger’s Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction