It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

There is no wealth but life.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Money has a language of its own.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.