"You can only help one of your luckless brothers
By trampling down a dozen others."
- Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan

"If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain."
- Emily Dickinson, If I can stop one Heart from breaking

"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others." - Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine

"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after."
- William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

"Don't shout for help at night. You may wake your neighbors." - STANISLAW LEC, Unkempt Thoughts

"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." - RAINER MARIA RILKE, Letters to a Young Poet