“Be confident that you make a difference, don’t get overwhelmed . . .Try to take each day and each task as they come, breaking them down into manageable pieces for action while struggling to see the whole. And don’t think you have to ‘win’ immediately – or even at all – to make a difference.”

-Marian Wright Edelman

Founder and President, Children’s Defense Fund

“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway…And you can always, always give something, even it is only kindness!"

-Anne Frank

Jewish Teenager, Diary-Keeper Victim of the Holocaust

“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better or happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile; kindness in your warm greeting.”

-Mother Teresa

Missionary, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

“If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live.”

-Rachel Carson

Biologist, Writer, Ecologist

“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings."

-Hodding Carter, Jr.

Awarding Winning Journalist and Commentator

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”

-Mahtama Gandhi

Indian Political and Spiritual Leader

“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 verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

American Civil Rights Leader

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

“If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.”

-Frances Hodgson Burett

American Playwright and Author

“No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”

-Aesop

Greek Fable Writer