There are two great forces of human nature: self-interest and caring for others - Bill Gates, Time, 11/08/08
The world is my country. Humanity is my family. To do good is my religion - Thomas Paine
The truly spiritual man feels something higher than sympathy; he feels the individuality of other people - A.W. von Schlegel;Compassion
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good - Ann Landers, American Advice Columnist
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918) Russian author and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nobel lecture, (1970)
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion - Socrates
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal them to their own - Benjamin Disraeli
The eye that sees, sees not itself - African tribe Etsako
The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless,unremembered acts of kindness and of love - William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
The abilities that matter most are now closer in spirit to the specialties of the right hemisphere - artistry, empathy, seeing the big picture, and pursuing the transcendent - Daniel Pink, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/brain.html