Quotes about Priorities

We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and not much time to think of what we didn't have.

If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you're fighting the wrong battle.

Used to tell me that people spend money on three things: what they love, what they worship, and what helps ease their pain.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.