Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Christmas is about giving. Be outrageously generous. Have fun, enjoy the process....then keep it up all year.

There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people.

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

Give a portion of your money to others. By releasing an anxious grasp on your money, you will open yourself to receive all that is meant to be yours.

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

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

Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result.

The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.

There's no compassion like the penny.

With my charity Big Dreams For Kids, I believe the more you give, the more you receive.