“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.”

“Some people maintain that what one believes becomes true, but the poor sick person who has hoped in vain would certainly not agree.”

“God gives talent so that the ordinary person can become extraordinary. Talent is the only way the poor can become rich. Otherwise, in this world the rich would remain rich and the poor would remain poor. This unfair talent actually creates a balance, helps to make the world fair.”

“Clothes make the poor invisible…. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”

“In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

“By becoming poor and entrusting divine revelation to a carpenter from Nazareth, God makes clear where one has to be in order to hear the divine word and experience divine presence.”

“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”

“How to not be poor: Every single day, make sure you can give. This is how you can enter the law of exchange to become financially free.”