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

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

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.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

He who is contented is rich.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

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.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Who, being loved, is poor?

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

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.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.