"Good exercise for the heart: reach out..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.”

“All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.”

“The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.”

“Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?”

“Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.”

“Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.”

“Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.”

“His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.”

“I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”