"One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world." -- Ann Radcliffe "Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, ‘Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?’... God said, ‘I did do something. I made you.’" -- Sufi Teaching
"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson." -- Bruce Catton
