“Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.”

“Pretty hard to see when you refuse to look. Pretty hard to hear when you refuse to listen.”

“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”

“...when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”

“There have existed, and for the time being still exist, many cultures whose members refuse to cut the vocal cords of the planet, and refuse to enter into the deadening deal which we daily accept as part of living. It is perhaps significant that prior to contact with Western Civilization many of these cultures did not have rape, nor did they have child abuse (the Okanagans of what is now British Columbia, to provide just one example, had neither word nor concept in their language corresponding to the abuse of a child.)”

“His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.”