Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

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

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

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‚Is that a $20 million take?‘ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

Money does not change people, people change.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

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

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

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.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

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