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

Philanthropy requires thought, action, and passion.

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

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.

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.

I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.

In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you.

In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do it. Still think she's not qualified to be President?

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.