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.

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.

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

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

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

Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

His saying was: live and let live.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.