In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

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

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

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

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

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Of course, I do everything for money.

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

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.