Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leon Tolstoi

Maya Angelou, Jesus Christ, Father Reagan, Joe Gibbs, My Grandparents, Tony Dungy, Dolly Parton, Robin Williams, Katherine Hepburn, David Letterman, Mel Gibson, Matthew McConaughey...people of color, people who are uncolored, Mothers, Babies, the radical, the different, those cursed with combination skin, animal lovers, NRA members, the decadent, the unruly, the brave. All Y'all.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.
Henry David Thoreau

shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Mahatma Gandhi

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them become what they are capable of being.
Goethe

We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

All US States (except Vermont)
Thailand
India
Burma (or what ever the hell it is called now)
France
England
Guam
Japan
Italy
Eygpt
Switzerland
Canada
Germany
Taiwan
Mexico
Washington DC (not a state - hehe)
Greece

Family, Friends, camping, photography, reading, FOOTBALL, laughing, cooking, wine (drinking it), fishing, being outside, learning, volunteering, children, babies, pregnant women, enjoying life and all its wonders!

English
Enough Thai and Spanish to introduce myself, count to ten and order a meal.