" Treat people as if they were what they ought to be..  and      you help them to become what they are capable of being"        -Goethe

" Be generous with kindly words, especially about those     who are absent."      -Goethe

" As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people      treat us.  I have long since learned that we are responsible only...      For the way we treat people."       --- Rose Lane

" Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the      future."         -Paul Boese

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless,      unremembered  acts of kindness and of love."         -- William Wordsworth

" There never was a day that did not bring its own opportunity      for doing good that never could have been done before.. and      never can be done again."        --William Burleigh

"You can stand tall without standing on someone.     You can be a victor without having victims."         --Harriet Woods

" Teach us to give and not to count the cost."       --Ignatius Loyola

" Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without      breaking. "          --Gandhi

" 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 I can do."   -- Helen Keller

" It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one      can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."         -Charles Dudley Warner

" You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical      presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured      number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you      can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can      not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls.      You must earn these."     - Clarence Francis

" People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too."       - Malcolm S. Forbes

" If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have     neglected much, and most of all yourself."     -A Neilen

" A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."       --- William J. Bennett