“And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?”
“For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.”
“To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
“We all need each other.”
“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
“Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.”
“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.”
“A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.”
“HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose”
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
“Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.”
“Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.”
“Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.”
“Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.”
“He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
“No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.”
“Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.”
“So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.”
“If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her.”
“When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.”
“It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.”
“Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.”
“Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones.”
“The proverb warns; ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.”
“It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.”
“I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.”