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.

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.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater read more

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.

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.

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.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without read more

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. read more

Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.

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.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that read more

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.