You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

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.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

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

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

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

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

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

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

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.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

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

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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

I’m very free-spirited.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

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

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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