Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

He eventually received a diploma from the Young Men's Christian Association Central High School in Chicago. Stone celebrated his 100th birthday with a gift of $100000 to the University of Illinois at Chicago.

William Clement Stone (May 4 1902 – September 3 2002) was a businessman philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author.