If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Second place is twice as good as first place, when you’re competing to put another person first. Losers make the best lovers.

The Red Cross irritated Ugwu; the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.

A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

My wallet was empty after the charity auction. Of course, my wallet was empty before the auction too. I donated my time and money to strippers.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

I’m a charitable guy. I donate my free time to watching TV—and I do it benevolently, without being compensated by advertisers.


We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the edges of your field or pick the fallen fruit. Leave these for the poor and the stranger.