No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

God wants no one to leave our presence empty handed.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

You can never out-give God.

The surest law in the world is the Law of Compensation. Its Justice works continually. If you do a Service you get back a Service. If you do Nothing you get back Nothing. Mere existence is not Living. Into your twenty-four hours put Work and Play and Rest, but at no time be a Bystander.