Patrick O'Brian 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.

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

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

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...

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.

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.