The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jesus' example teaches a powerful lesson. He demonstrates that one way to overcome emotional pain is to focus on the needs of others — to reach out and help someone else who may also be suffering.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.

I was walking past the mental hospital the other day, and all the patients were shouting, "13...13...13." The fence was too high to see over, so I looked through a gap to see what was going on. Some idiot poked me in the eye with a stick, and they all started shouting "14...14...14." That's how I learnt to mind my own business!

I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.

We all need reminders that there is a huge difference between coaching from the spiritual sidelines and putting skin in the game. Between advertising for the cause and actually joining it. Between talking about it from afar and getting close enough for it to affect our comfort.