I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.
All Angelina Jolie wants to do is do good for people. And she was saying to me: If I could just make one person happy, Joan, I'll die satisfied. I said: Easy! Just give Jennifer Aniston back her husband.
Give generously. How much is generous? There's no one-size-fits-all answer. If you've never tithed, start there - then begin to stretch your generosity.
... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.
I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.
I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.
He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
