"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?"
"Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law."
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Source: Pirkei Avot. A Mishna tractate. Chapter 1:12, www.chabad.org.
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