Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

--Theodore Roszak

A man can only do what he can do.  But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

--Albert Schweitzer

Our duty as people is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thou shalt love the stars, the ocean, the forest, and reverence all living things, recognizing that the source of life is one.

-- Note Book of Elbert Hubbard

Vivisection is the blackest of all the black crimes that man is at present committing against God and His fair creation. It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practise elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

--Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, in 'The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism'

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

--Helen Keller

Let us never forget that authentic power is service.

-- Pope Francis I in the homily of his inaugural mass on March 19, 2013

When a thing exists which you really abhor, I wish you would remember a little whether in letting it strictly alone you are minding your own business on principle, or simply because it is comfortable to do so.

--John Galsworthy, 1867-1933, in 'A Sheaf'

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception.

- V. Cousin

Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barker

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can't eat money.

Cree proverb