I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach.

I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.

I set out to work hard, not to get rich.

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.... Interventions have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

The best way to worship God is to honor His people

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Seek the miracles in sacred moment.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it’s just cheap.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.