It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? -Richard Bach

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. -Emma Goldman

The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world. -Mohamed ElBaradei

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. -Mignon McLaughlin

Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. -Hubert Humphrey

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. -Margaret Fuller

The past is never where you think you left it. -Katherine Anne Porter

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. -Rabindranath Tagore

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison