Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old

Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver

It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god’s presence. At such times love was joy to him, a wild, keen–thrilling satisfaction. But when away from his god, the pain and the unrest returned; the void in him sprang up and pressed against him with its emptiness, and the hunger gnawed and gnawed unceasingly.

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god’s property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.

The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

Yes. I won’t be giving them to the children, but back to society. Don’t get me wrong, the children will get something, but we received from society, and will give it back.

There are two kinds of idiots – those who don’t take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.