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

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

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.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

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

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

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.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

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

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.