The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

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

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

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

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

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.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

If you would judge, understand.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Who, being loved, is poor?

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.