Quotes from Peter B. Lewis

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.