For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Affluence means influence.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

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

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

I love to watch times change!

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

The status quo sucks.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

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

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

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.