You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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

Money often costs too much.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

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

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

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.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

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

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

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

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Industry need not wish.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.