Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

Your future is dependent on your thought today, therefore think good and lovely thoughts now!

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.

The reason I rob nursing homes is because the residents in nurseries don’t have any wealth yet to steal. How can I steal from babies? What do you think I am, a Central Banker?

As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone in her position, coming from a background where rick of failure was minimal; in fact, you had to...

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

The wealthiest people in the world are those who can give the most value to the most number of people.

I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Rich and famous and doing good,” mused Schlichtmann. “Rich isn’t so difficult. Famous isn’t so difficult. Rich and famous together aren’t so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good–now, that’s very difficult.

I once asked him why he smoked the world’s most expensive cigarette, and he told me it was because he was a man of wealth and taste, at least according to Mick Jagger.

The idea of luxury, even the word “luxury,” was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was so nice, so lovely, in itself that you did not mind, in fact...

A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn’t.

Why did they all have to tread so very delicately around Celeste’s money? It was like wealth was an embarrassing medical condition. It was the same with Celeste’s beauty. Strangers gave Celeste the same furtive...

He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at...

If you always do “just enough” you’ll never have more than enough.

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the...

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

When you act on your beliefs, the realisation that happens is caused by you and this will in turn lead to a consequence.

There are no prizes for defying yourself.

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

Why are…poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their...

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Wealth without wisdom is equal to life without purpose

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.

On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being...

Father is a school manqué … He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

She probably thinks I have the clothes of a millionaire. And I do, but they’re still on his body, which is still in the trunk of my car.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no...

Wealth—one billion, two billion, what’s the difference? The difference is one billion—the same difference as flat broke, like me, and one billion.

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper...

Before Gutenberg, libraries were small — the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers,...

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:Politics without principle.Wealth without work.Commerce without morality.Pleasure without conscience.Education without character.Science without humility.Worship without sacrifice.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most...

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Egoism… is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new ‘needs’ emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house...

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.