"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."
Margaret Cho

"That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
William Wordsworth

"In charity there is no excess."
Sir Francis Bacon

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Sir Winston Churchill

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift that's weighed."
Seneca

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."
John Wesley

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself...Serve and thou shall be served."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowd with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience."
John D. Rockefeller

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare think."
Longfellow

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. "
Walt Whitman

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. "
E. B. White

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
Kin Hubbard