I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

— Jimmy Carter

I have seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

— Beth Lewis

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish, and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

— Jodi Picoult

[International] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

— Arundhati Roy

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

— Criss Jami

It takes courage to do aid work, but it takes bravery to put your thoughts and experiences out in front of the world.

— Kelsey Hoppe

I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students who have guided and aided me throughout my scientific life. I wish I could name them all and tell you their contributions. More, however, than anyone else it was the late Rudolf Schoenheimer, a brilliant scholar and a man of infectious enthusiasm, who introduced me to the wonders of Biochemistry. Ever since, I have been happy to have chosen science as my career, and, to borrow a phrase of Jacques Barn, have felt that 'Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment'.

— Konrad Bloch

Just as the hand rushes involuntarily to protect one's honor in case of accidental state of undress, so does a friend come to his friend's aid without being asked

— Thiruvalluvar

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

— Kamand Kojouri

... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

— William Easterly