Rich - Quotes
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man`s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
The great moral questions of the present age are those about human rights, war, poverty, the vast disparities between rich and poor, the fact that somewhere in the third world a child dies every two and a half seconds because of starvation or remediable disease. The churches` obsessions over pre-marital sex and whether divorced couples can remarry in church appears contemptible in the light of this mountain of human suffering and need. By distracting attention from what really counts, and focusing it on the minor and anyway futile attempt to get people to conduct their personal lives only in ways the church permits, harm is done to the cause of good in the world.
People say, "What are you depressed about? You can buy anything you want." I wish everyone in the world was rich so they would realize money isn`t everything.
High-income people spend a lot more than do average people on education and retirement savings. If we were trying to get clues about good gifts from what the rich do, then we should give people education and future consumption.
It is better not to be married than to be married unhappily. Women do not need to be married to have rich, fulfilled lives.
I`d like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off.
Life must be rich and full of loving - it`s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.