“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”

“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”

“Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.”

“You have too many gurus in this country. They have told you what to do, what to think, what to practice. They are the dictators.”

“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”

“True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.”