Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world

Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro...

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.