La verdadera generosidad, en relación con el futuro, consiste en dárselo todo al presente

Haz todo el bien que puedas, por todos los medios que puedas, de todas las formas que puedas, en todos los lugares que puedas, todas las veces que puedas, a todas las personas que puedas, todo el tiempo que puedas.

Conviene, por una parte ser generoso cuando se da y, por otra, no mostrar dureza en reclamar lo que nos debenen las relaciones de vecindad en la ciudad y en el campo, manifestarse ecuánime, afable, dispuesto a ceder en muchos casos de su propio derecho, manteniéndose siempre alejados de los pleitos.

Para las almas generosas todas las tareas son nobles.

No hay más que uno modo de ser felices: vivir para los demás.

Una persona generosa experimenta placer al dar y compartir sus bienes con los demás sin temor ni egoísmo.

Nadie tiene más amor que el que da su vida por los que ama.

La generosidad no consiste en que me des algo que yo necesito más que tú, sino en darme algo que tú necesitas más que yo.

El que no sirve para servir, no sirve para vivir.

La generosidad es el deseo de quien quiere, siguiendo el dictamen de su razón, ayudar a los demás.

Para las almas generosas, cualquier ocupación es noble.

Ama como puedas, ama a quien puedas, ama todo lo que puedas. No te preocupes de la finalidad de tu amor.

El regalo más grande es dar una parte de ti mismo.

La generosidad no consiste en dar mucho, sino en dar a tiempo.

Con el tiempo y la madurez, descubrirás que tienes dos manos; una para ayudarte a ti misma y otra para ayudar a los demás.

Para mí la generosidad verdadera es así: uno da todo y siempre siente como si no le hubiera costado nada

Uno no ha terminado de vivir el día hasta que no haya hecho algo por otro que nunca te lo pagará

Es en dar que recibimos.

Si alguna vez no te dan la sonrisa esperada, sé generoso y da la tuya. Porque nadie tiene tanta necesidad de una sonrisa, como aquel que no sabe sonreír a los demás.

La generosidad no consiste en que me des algo que yo necesito más que tú, sino en darme algo que tú necesitas más que yo

El regalo más grande es dar una parte de ti mismo

La generosidad consiste en dar antes de que se nos pida

El mejor regalo que le podemos hacer a otro no es sólo compartir nuestras riquezas, sino revelarle las suyas propias.

Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.

Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.

Everyone has a rock bottom.

Your goals and dreams must be written in journal or notebook. This will ignites a fire, divine power and divine strength within your soul. You will begin to reach out for your goals and dreams.

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

If you throw a banana at a wall theres a small possibility that it will pass through the wall.

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a career, but it was more of an intention than an actual decision. I was very interested in a lot of different subjects, but every time I envisioned myself actually pursuing one as a career, I always ended up thinking that I would rather be acting.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.

I can loop my tongue into multiple rolls.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.