Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
The news of me giving a Rolls Royce to Salman is completely untrue. If anyone should be giving Rolls Royce then he should be giving to me.
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.
The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.
When I was little, I looked in the mirror and held the Bible in my hand - that's how I talked to God. I never just asked for stuff. The way I saw it, if you give Him something, you get something.
To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself.
No one has given me anything for free.
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.
Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.
When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.
If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
