Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

Money should never change one’s values…. Making money is only a report card. It’s a way to tell how you’re doing.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people.

Operate your household like a productive business.

He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

Markets are the best way to allocate resources.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

The wise Christian will learn from the spiritual blunders of others.

I was so nervous before going out there

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

"You die, I die too.” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."