“Some "take and give". Some "receive and share".”

“Receiving is good but giving is much better. Nevertheless, sharing is the best.”

“Lyor Cohen, who I consider my mentor, once told me something that he was told by a rabbi about the eight degrees of giving in Judaism. The seventh degree is giving anonymously, so you don't know who you're giving to, and the person on the receiving end doesn't know who gave. The value of that is that the person receiving doesn't have to feel some kind of obligation to the giver and the person giving isn't doing it with an ulterior motive. It's a way of putting the giver and receiver on the same level. It's a tough ideal to reach out for, but it does take away some of the patronizing and showboating that can go on with philanthropy in a capitalist system. The highest level of giving, the eight, is giving in a way that makes the receiver self-sufficient.”

“There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.”

“Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!”

“She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”