Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in. – Author Unknown

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. – James Russell Lowell

There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike (Thanks, Carl)