“Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.”

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Success consists in the climb.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.

I’m a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

Some of us have so much to give. We can give it all away and still know how to live.

Mother Earth is so generous. If only we give her the chance, she will restore everything in absolute abundance and beauty.

I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.