What is the city but the people?

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.