"Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong." - Zoroaster

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." - BIBLE, I Corinthians 13:1

"And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." - BIBLE, I Corinthians 13:13

"Charity shall cover the multitude of sins." - BIBLE, I Peter 4:8

"When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." - BIBLE, Matthew 6:3

"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Strength to Love

"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty." - MAIMONIDES, Guide to the Perplexed

"Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins."
- HORACE SMITH, Horace in London

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well." - MARGARET THATCHER, television interview