The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.