Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
-Harry S. Truman
The Gods gave a microbe a drop of water, and in it he lived. They gave an ant a half acre of land, and he prospered. They gave a tiger the forest and he formed an empire and became an emperor. They gave man the Universe and all the knowledge therein. He entered of his own free will the dungeon of Dogma, shut his mind to truth and slew and starved his brothers.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
-Robert Brault