Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.

ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.

Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.