To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.
I am different, not less.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
No joy can equal the joy of serving others.
Without volunteers, we’d be a nation without a soul.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.
Change your thinking, change your life.
We rise by lifting others.
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
There is no health without mental health.
The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.
Help yourself by helping others.
People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.