All too often, food is given to a poor person only because the giver is too lazy to go to the dustbin, or to look for one.

It is selfish to want others to be selfless.

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

Charity usually begins at home, and usually ends there, without having left.

It takes selfishness to do something intentionally.

Some self-employed people work for others.

Charity begins on the street when you are homeless.

In order to make them overlook our greed, or to make us seem less greedy than we are, we sometimes remind some people that, if and when we catch it, the wealth that we are relentlessly chasing would enable us to help a lot of poor people.