“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person. ” — R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983); archtiect, engineer, inventor

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, responsible, honorable, compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
— Leo Rosten (1908-1997); Writer, teacher

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vincent “Vince” Lombardi (1913-1970); athletic coach

“We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.”  —Hunter Campbell “Patch” Adams; physician, activist, author

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”  —Dr. Seuss (1904-1991); writer, cartoonist

“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.”  – Alex Noble