This homeless guy asked me for money the other day. I was about to give it to him and then I thought he was going to use it on drugs or alcohol. And then I thought, that's what I'm going to use it on. Why am I judging this poor bastard?

If someone visits a living man and gets nothing from him to eat, it is as if he had visited the dead.

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

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

As water will quench a blazing fire, So charity will atone for sin.

I don't want you to give me your surplus. I want you to give with personal deprivation.

Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Better is he who gives little to charity from money honestly earned, than he who gives much from dishonestly gained wealth.

Even a poor man who lives on charity should give charity.

They were also very bountiful, especially the ladies. They were always raising money to buy skinny chickens for people who lived in tenements or organizing private schools that often went bankrupt.