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.

I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves…

I have always stood for the exalting of the life that is in me over art, or any other extraneous thing.

Life's not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.

For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice. Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a br…

Generosity: 'Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.'

'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,' As it hurried down the hill. 'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener sti…