The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

You grow up as an artist in a big city. As James Dean said, you're going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don't accept people's sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless; I didn't have any money, and I was living in my car. I was 18.

Carried interest... you're making money on somebody else's capital. It's not on your own. If that's not income, I don't know what is.