"Two men met on the beach. "Good evening, friend. What are you doing?" "I'm throwing these starfish back in the ocean. If I don't, they'll die up here." "There must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to them all. You can't possibly make a difference." He smiled, picked up yet another starfish and threw it into the sea. "Made a difference to that one!""
- Jack Canfield & Mark V. Hansen (adapted)