Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.    (Margaret Mead)

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.  (Dalai Lama)

Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. (Maya Angelou)

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.  (Joseph Campbell)

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. (Francis of Assisi)

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”    (Maya Angelou)

It is our profound conviction that the future of the human family depends also on how we safeguard – both prudently and compassionately, with justice and fairness – the gift…

We must protect creation for it is a gift which the Lord has given us, it is God’s present to us; we are the guardians of creation.  (Pope Francis)

Creation is a gift, it is the marvelous gift that God has given us, so that we will take care of it and harness it for the benefit of all,…

Like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.  (Pope Francis)