A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

Bo Bennett

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

Mathurin Regnier

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clemenceau

Death is woven in with the violets, said Louis. Death and again death.)

Virginia Woolf

I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe.

Albert Einstein

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

Tom Daschle

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

Leo Tolstoy

The (Christian) doctrines are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

C.S. Lewis

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

Belinda Jeffrey