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

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.

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.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.

The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.

I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.