ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.

Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest, most selfless things you can do for someone.

The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.