Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

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

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

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

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

For greed all nature is too little.

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

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.