El amor es la perfección del espíritu y la caridad es la perfección del amor

La manera de dar vale más que lo que se da.

Ciertos hombres de mal corazón creen reconciliarse con el cielo cuando dan una limosna.

El dinero consagrado a la beneficencia no tiene mérito si no representa un sacrificio, una privación.

Yo creo que el mejor medio de hacer bien a los pobres no es darles limosna, sino hacer que puedan vivir sin recibirla.

Si tienes mucho, da mucho; si tienes poco, da poco: pero da siempre.

Tirarle el hueso al perro no es caridad. Caridad es compartir el hueso con el perro cuando se está tan hambriento como él.

En las cosas necesarias, la unidad; en las dudosas, la libertad; y en todas, la caridad.

Encontramos la caridad en el mas alto nivel de la conciencia humana.

La caridad es el océano desde donde salen y a donde van a parar todas las demás virtudes.

Cada acto de caridad es un paso más hacia el cielo

Lo mejor que puedes dar a tu enemigo es el perdón; a un oponente, tolerancia; a un hijo, un buen ejemplo; a tu padre, deferencia; a tu madre, una conducta de la cual se enorgullezca; a ti mismo, respeto; a todos los hombres, caridad.

Quien toma bienes de los pobres es un asesino de la caridad. Quien a ellos ayuda, es un virtuoso de la justicia.

Tened siempre una gran caridad con todos, y nunca particularidades.

A los ojos de la caridad no es nunca pequeño el bien que se hace ni el mal que se evita.

Aprender a mirar al pobre desde su pobreza, al enfermo desde su enfermedad o al marginado desde su marginación, es el objetivo principal de una caridad bien entendida

Ayudar al débil es caridad; pretender ayudar al poderoso es orgullo.

Hay una cosa que siempre nos asegurará el cielo: Los actos de caridad y bondad con los que llenamos nuestra vida.

Haciendo la caridad, uno no se equivoca nunca

La caridad es la reina de las virtudes. Como el hilo entrelaza las perlas, así la caridad a las otras virtudes; cuando se rompe el hilo caen las perlas. Por eso cuando falta la caridad, las virtudes se pierden.

La persona que no tiene un corazón caritativo padece del peor de los males cardiacos

Para que sea fructífera, la caridad debe costarnos un esfuerzo.

Nada les unirá más a Dios que la caridad.

Tengamos siempre encendida en nuestro corazón la llama de la caridad

La caridad es un deber; la elección de la forma, un derecho.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London.

Whole Foods is a wonderland molded to accommodate the psyche of the socially-responsible, guilt-ridden liberal - the crunchy Kucinich capitalist.

When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words Ye must have faith.

The only way you’re going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.

Of course, museums and galleries and art spaces will continue to ground the art world. But certainly the public - as well as artists - also benefit when art is encountered in other everyday situations.

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I am afraid that being around a couple as sweet as you will make me diabetic. Happy first anniversary.

Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.