To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only t...
When a rich man wants children, he gets dollars, when a poor man wants dollars, he gets children.
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Ch...
Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.
The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
God is the comfort of the poor.
The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
If a rich man drinks alcohol, he will easily become a poor. If a poor man does not drink alcohol, he will easily become rich.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.
The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.
A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
The world needs a person like me so that many other rich people will be able to follow my role model. If they do, many poor people will be helped.
Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
If a rich man ate a snake, they would say it was because of his wisdom; if a poor man ate it, they would say it was because of his stupidity.
I’ve had situations when I’ve actually encouraged authors to self-publish because their book was poor. Now one would conclude that I’m asking them to self-publish because their book was poor and the self-publishing warehouse is where all the po...
The poor always smell.
