A lot of me is very up and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact than the richest without meaning.

To be satisfied with a little is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure and trouble findeth it not.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things at the expense of neglecting Christ.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness find it where you may.

Never respect men merely for their riches but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height but for its use.

To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

We do not want riches we want peace and love.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

As a means of contrast with the sublime the grotesque is in our view the richest source that nature can offer.

It is the nature of truth in general as of some ores in particular to be richest when most superficial.

He is richest who is content with the least for content is the wealth of nature.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems seeing a painting listening to some music some opera which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.

False riches consisting of money houses and lands acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.