“You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.” 

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.” 

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” 

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

On Henry David Thoreau: He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

“PLANNING AHEAD IS A measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.” 

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

“Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”

“Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.” 

Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

 As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.