Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

When you give, it comes back to you.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

My mother always wanted to give back.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I got my buzz from playing.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It’s a real strength for me that I’ve never minded the training process. It’s something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.