C. Everett Koop Quotes

The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

It's a joy to help others. One of our longtime favorites is Rawhide Boys Camp, located 45 miles west of Green Bay.

Humanitarian work is something I've felt from very young, and I'm going to do that for sure.

I really enjoy charity work and helping people.

When you are the head of any philanthropy organization, what you learn is empathy, how to listen and be responsive to people's needs.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

I want to do something to help people.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

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

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International Good Deeds Day has become a global annual tradition of giving.

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

When I give my time to a worthy cause, it's time well spent. Lending a voice to help raise money - or perhaps just awareness - is the least I can do to give back. When I spend time with people who are fighting for children, it puts everything into perspective.

I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.

One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

I spend as much time as I possibly can doing things for other people, if I can. If I see a need and I feel that I can help, I do it. I work a great deal in terms of charities and things.

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.

That's how we grew up - kinda like Pops would put his drums, his percussion and instruments into the car and we would just go to a facility in the Bay Area and he would say to us, 'You think we have it bad? There are people worse off than we are. Let's go give back to the kids.' And that's how we grew up.

Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.

When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

I want to be more than just an artist and be a people's person and do a lot of stuff for people.