This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Richard L. Evans, fully Richard Louis Evans
Among the greatest gifts a parent can give a child - even greater than a hovering, solicitous protection - are the wisdom, the character, the standards that will help him safely to make his own decisions and provide his own protection.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
No possessions are good but by the good use we make of them; without which wealth, power, friends, and servants, do not help to make our lives more unhappy.
Good | Possessions | Power | Wealth |
Simeon ben Lakish, or Shimon ben Lakish or Reish Lakish
Where ignorance thrives, there can be no liberty, nor can it live very long even when there is enlightenment without the help of virtue.
Enlightenment | Ignorance | Liberty | Virtue | Virtue |
Oliver Lodge, fully Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
Free will was granted to humanity. Man became conscious of good and evil, and his power of free choice. He acquired simultaneously Freedom and Responsibility. Henceforth he could help or he could hinder.
Choice | Evil | Free choice | Free will | Freedom | Good | Humanity | Man | Power | Responsibility | Will |
To learn how to die is to learn how to live; to learn how to live is to learn how to act not only in this life, but in the lives to come. To transform yourself truly and learn how to be reborn as a transformed being to help others is really to help the world in the most powerful way of all.
If two men claim thy help, and one is thy enemy, help him first.
William Faulkner, fully William Cuthbert Faulkner
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man; it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
Compassion | Courage | Duty | Endurance | Glory | Heart | Man | Need | Past | Pity | Sacrifice | Soul | Spirit | Will | Privilege |
Colin Powell, fully Colin Luther Powell
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
People |