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

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

We have the best government that money can buy.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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

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

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

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

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I think that I’ve had a very strange life.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

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.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

There was a point where I really felt I had ‚penniless divorcee lone parent‘ tattooed on my head.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.