Steven Spielberg Quotes

I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

I hope that when I'm 90 years old, I've accomplished a legacy that isn't all about me. I hope it's a legacy about the people who our foundation helps.

Before I pass, I want to start an orphanage and name it after my mother. She worked with kids all her life.

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

I want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do.

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?