“I would not have my sheep branded with any other mark than my own, or follow the whistle of a strange shepherd.”

“As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.”

“Feed my lambs, shepherd my sheep.”

“Justice!” bleated Othello. “Justice!” bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn’s sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd.”

“I want the brand gone, Cecile," Lesharo said quietly. “I have no wish to have Ducharme’s mark on me. If you will not permit Pierre to do this, will you do it?”“Ducharme said I should put my own mark on you,” she recalled, turning her face away at the memory. “I cannot do what he did.”“His mark is the mark of a pani, set upon me by a man who was less than an animal. I would proudly bear the scar you gave me, for it will be something done to me in friendship.”

“By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!”