Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.
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.
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.