Salma Hayek Quotes

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.

In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

My father would give his dinner to any hungry kids who walked by and then go in the backyard and pick weeds from the yard to eat.

When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.

You don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to rush to help those in need.

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

Everyone has needs, but Food for the Hungry is something that people can grasp onto as a practical way to step outside of themselves, take a risk, and give.

One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.