American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.

Philanthropy requires thought, action, and passion.

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

Do we live for or do we live off philanthropy?

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions.

It’s the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Isn't it odd that the guy was politically correct in one particularly weird way. Bill Clinton never lit a cigar.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn't - can't stand, we are going to lose.