"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No. I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds, yet I willingly cure him for the love of God." --Mother Teresa

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution." --Kahlil Gibran

"Agape is understanding, creative, redemtive goodwill toward all men. Agape is an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. When you rise to love on this level, you love all men not because you like them, not because their ways appeal to you, but you love them because God loves them." -Martin Luther King Jr.

"God...I pray you, shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind." --St. Francis of Assisi

"What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in." --Thaddeus Golas

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now" --Martin Luther King, Jr.