I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.

I set out to work hard, not to get rich.

I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today.

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.... Interventions have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.

Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.

Ooh, the silent treatment.

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

He who complains, sins.

You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.