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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.

I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

I'll get involved in philanthropy.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.