"I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." -- Edward Everett
"Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones." -- Shalom RokeachGiving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings. -- Lao tzu
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. --Hugh Blair
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." --Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness" -- Seneca
"The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others." -- Albert Schweitzer
We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure. -- E.F. Schumacher