I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

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

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

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.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

I’m very proud of the Rome episode of ‚No Reservations‘ because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You’re never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

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.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

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.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

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

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

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.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

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.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.