We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There is no wealth but life.

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

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

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

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

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

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

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.

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

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

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

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Affluence means influence.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.