It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

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

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

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

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

History is written by the victors.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.