You are not working for your homeland, the community or the future unless you are working toward enriching your own soul. Only by getting can one give, only by growing in one's spirit can one collaborate in the development of others.. In notes lie the seeds from which forest and cornfield grow, they contain drops which become springs
– this is what I offer to sustain, to quench the thirst, to please the heart and to fight weariness.
Martin Wolins, (1967) Selected Works of Janusz Korczak, p. 6 Selection from Polish by Martin Wolins, Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. Translated by Jerzy Bachrach
