Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another. - Erma Bombeck

A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; An optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty. -- G. Thomas Gale

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. --Lily Tomlin

Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others. -- Chinese Proverb

If you don't have any charity in your heart you have the worst kind of heart trouble. -- Bob Hope

And when… people believe in you, deep enough, and strong enough, believe in you hard enough, and long enough It stands to reason that you yourself will Start to see what everybody sees in You And maybe even you, Can believe in you... too! -- Just One Person from the Musical “Snoopy”

If you insist on measuring yourself, place the tape around your heart rather than your head. -- Carol Trabelle

Quotes selected from the Energ!ze, Inc. website