“Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.” – Tony Kushner

“What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.” – Elizabeth Lessser

“It is no way to live, to wait to love.” – Dave Eggers

“All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.” – Anna Quindlen

“You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you’re generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.” – Winston Churchhill

“It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.” – Albert Einstein

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil

“While we do our good works, let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world which charity will have become unnecessary.” – Chinua Achebe

“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.” – David Foster Wallace