This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Colin Powell, fully Colin Luther Powell
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually illness... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.
Lesson |
Niels Bohr, fully Aage Niels Bohr
Any development of knowledge of the rules of nature which may help to give greater command of the powers of nature holds the hope of improving the living conditions of mankind; but also holds dangers which put our entire civilization to a serious test. The responsibilities, however, that these dangers are defeated in the right way, rests not only upon the scientist but must be shared by all circles of every nation.
Civilization | Hope | Knowledge | Mankind | Nature | Right |
Baal Shem Tov, given name Yisroel ben Eliezer
If you want to help pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to get a little dirty.
C. S. Lewis, fully Clive Staples "C.S." Lewis, called "Jack" by his family
The truth is that right actions done for the wrong reasons do not help to build the internal quality or character that is called "virtue," and it is this quality or character that really matters.
C. Wright Mills, fully Charles Wright Mills
The aim of college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Confidence | Need | Friends |
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
Government | Man | Rights | Government |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Love | Relationship | Child |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for "life" instead of for "death."
Awareness | Choice | Individual | Knowledge | Man | Respect | Sincerity | Respect | Awareness |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
Ability | Contradiction | Intelligence | Reason | World |
I know that theater people often have very simplistic view of politics and tend to express very black and white patriotic sentiments but perhaps that is because we know the value of illusion, how it can help strengthen the weak, and stimulate the weary
Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers," born Frederick McFeely Rogers
At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision us to continue against all odds. Life is for service.
Growth | Heart | Life | Life | Spirit | Universe | Vision | Wants | Intellect |
Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR
Charity literally translated from the original means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves.