Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary although it has often been made has never proved widely persuasive.

Wealth in even the most improbable cases manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted talented wealthy internationally famous genius.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine Oscar Moore died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans we say 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all the creators of wealth to produce less through strikes it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Mormons... are so strong they can handle wealth they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth technical power and nationalism.

No advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly not only will you get better environmental outcomes you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

I think that anybody that stays in school gets good grades pays the price I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education they should be able to do that.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics because discrimination poverty and ignorance restrict growth while investments in education infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.