I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

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.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

A home without books is a body without soul.

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

I am not a fan of books.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.