I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

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

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

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

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.‘

Simple goes a long way.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

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.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

I became a beach bum.

I’m filthy rich!

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

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.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

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.‘

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

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

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

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.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Elegance is refusal.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

You give before you get.

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.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

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.

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.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.