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I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally.

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.

I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.

I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'

Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.