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

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

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

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

There is no unique picture of reality.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.