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I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

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.

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

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

When it comes to charities, there's a lot of fraud.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.

There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.