Literature adds to reality it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
I feel sometimes as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
The desire of knowledge like the thirst of riches increases ever with the acquisition of it.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches it does not fight battles. It is men real living who do all this.
If past history was all there was to the game the richest people would be librarians.
There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.
People are ready to say 'Yes we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
My personal feeling if I can interject a political note is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.
For sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed they must be interrupted.
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede in general from real happiness in proportion as their stores increase as the moon when she is fullest is farthest from the sun.
It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government one of the richest on Earth is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
Every wise just and mild government by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure will always abound most in people as well as in commodities and riches.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
The God of this world is riches pleasure and pride.
All my life Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest freest' country in the world. By most measurements it was long a contender for that honor and - among the larger countries if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.
We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture so that Africa is not a net importer of food but an exporter of food.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.