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.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

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.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

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

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.

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Money has a language of its own.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Imagination decides everything.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

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

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.