The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

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

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

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

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

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

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

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

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

He who is contented is rich.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

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

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

I’m filthy rich!

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.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.