It is not enough merely to exist. It’s not enough to say, “I’m earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I’m a good father, husband, churchgoer.” That’s all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.                                                                  ––Albert Schweitzer

 

A prophecy that comes true, especially a negative prophecy, is a prophecy that has failed. One doesn’t prophesy for the purpose of being accurate. A prophecy is an attempt to warn or to prepare people to make a change, and if they make that change, then what they’re preparing for just may not occur.                                               ––Paul Solomon

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash. Your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.                                    ––William Faulkner

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.           ––Gertrude Stein

 

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. People do what they must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.                                               ––John F. Kennedy

Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But, conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.                                   ––Martin Luther King, Jr

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

––Leo Tolstoy

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.          ––Konrad Adenauer

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.          ––Will Rogers

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

 ––Gertrude Stein

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.    ––Ray Bradbury

I know not with which weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.          ––Albert Einstein

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.       ––Henry Miller