Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the read more

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as read more

A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people read more

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll read more

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than read more

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not read more

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action read more

Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one read more

Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.