One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion.  One is not just a man.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah PurcellGPA

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.  ~Walter Savage Landor

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.  ~Virginia Burden, The Process of Intuition

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

No man is free who is not a master of himself.  ~Epictetus

A snowflake is one of God’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!  ~Author Unknown

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.  ~Helen Keller

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.  ~Sandra Day O’Connor

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.  ~Bahá’u’lláh

[I]f you have a purpose in which you can believe, there’s no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.  ~Marian Anderson

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.  I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.  ~George Bernard Shaw

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.  ~Langston Hughes

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.  ~Mohammed Ali

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.  ~Robert Collyer

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.  ~Victor Hugo

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.  ~Seneca

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.  ~Alexander the Great

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact.  It is a historical truth.  No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.  ~Maya Angelou

The time is always right to do what is right.  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot live only for ourselves.  A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.  ~Herman Melville

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.  ~David S. Muzzey

Everybody can be great.  Because anybody can serve.  You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.  You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.  You only need a heart full of grace.  A soul generated by love.  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.  ~Native American Proverb