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"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."
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"One of the speaking programs I deliver is entitled, "Service with a Smile . . . How to Create a Sensational Customer Experience." Smiling is at the heart of my teaching because when employees smile while delivering service, it tells the guest/client/customer . . . You matter.You are important.We are glad you are here.We appreciate your business."

"The only way to practicalize your love for God is by helping and loving others."

"There is no serving God without serving man."

"Do good deeds and serve people, because nobody is too unimportant not to be served by you."
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"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."


"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."


"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."


"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."


"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."


"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."


"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."


"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."


"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."


"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
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