The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

-Albert Einstein

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

-Booker T. Washington

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

-Holocaust Museum, Washington D.C.

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

-James Baldwin

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

-Peter Drucker

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Roosevelt

God has given me the responsibility to love Him, first.  Love my wife, children, family, pastor, church, brothers and sisters in Christ... and to realize that no matter how low on the list I may be... God loved me, first.

-Paul Harper

Let us journey on...