If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Great satisfaction comes from sharing a large fraction of what you have with others

Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.

He’s a great guy. He’d give you the shirt off his back if you asked. In fact, I’m wearing his shirt now, and I’m staring at his nipples.

You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.

Some people want what they are not willing to give.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves as the rational species. But research in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics shows...

Ought we not to love dearly the neighbor, who truly represents to us the sacred Person of our Master? And is this not one of the most powerful motives we could have for loving each...

In the future, charities will be like pets. Everybody will want one, and millions will be abandoned.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families...

I don’t think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.

Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren’t asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very...

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery,...

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others’ loss & despair.

If you put these five things together – you can’t use money to attract talent, you can’t advertise, you can’t take risks, you can’t invest in long-term results, and you don’t have a stock market...

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a...

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food and clothing donated for the children got furtively resold outside the orphanage gate.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Your job is to get off your self righteous butt and start reaching out to the difficult people because my ministry wasn’t about a bunch of nice people getting together once a week to sing...

Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently endangered under present conditions. They assume that others think and act generously, kindly and helpfully, in accordance with the laws...

Love is about giving, about caring for the other person’s welfare. Love is treating someone, in the Kantian sense, never as a means but as an end in themselves. Love is sacrifice, love is something...

Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They’re usually compensating for some evil they’re trying to erase.

What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder...

A selfless service to humanity is also a selfless service to God

There’s nothing that says love like getting money as a gift, and then giving it away to the needy.

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on...

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal...

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask...

I’m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was cold and you clothed me; come, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’ He who is the the King...

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.