You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

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

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

You have to be someone.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.