The entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.
Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Help
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other.
Unless we give part of ourselves away unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.
The closer I'm bound in love to you the closer I am to free.
In helping others we shall help ourselves for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.
As long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold him down so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important that I matter!
I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach in their own way.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching u...