What Does the World Need More Of?

About 30 years ago, I came across a few sentences labeled “The World Needs More.” They might have appeared in Readers' Digest, I'm not sure, and the author was noted as “Anonymous.” I've tried many times in the decades since to find the author's name, but to no avail. Whoever wrote those original three or four sentences was on to something important, and they've spurred me to revise and extend them into a much longer piece. I've shared them with audiences all over the world, most recently at a Georgia Public Policy Foundation in Atlanta in November 2016. Invariably, people in great numbers approach me afterwards to ask, “May I get a copy of that?”