Quotes About Community

I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

It's been amazing to touch people's lives.

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.

I'm crazy about Israel. It's full of life.

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.

Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.