Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.

Better to live in a small rented apartment than in a flat or bungalow purchased on a housing loan

I used to wait in line for Jordans. That's how much of a freak I was.

Wealth isn't evil, Kate. It's the love of money that is. When no matter how much you have is never enough.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?

If you think you own something, that's like walking on quicksand.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

Austerity has always made me happy, and its opposite, miserable. I find it strange that, knowing this, I should so often have inflicted upon myself the nausea of over-indulgence, and had to fight off the black dogs of satiety. Human beings, as Pascal points out, are peculiar in that they avidly pursue ends they know will bring them no satisfaction; gorge themselves with food which cannot nourish and with pleasures which cannot please. I am a prize example.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.