Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth or beauty that mattered. Happiness has got to be paid for. It hasn't been very good for truth of course. But it's been very good for happiness.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

If you aim to leave Las Vegas with a small fortune, go there with a large one.

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

He loves power. A terrible love.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.