“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”

“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

“It is better to live rich, than to die rich.”

“I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.”

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

“…If you could ever get the poor to vote in this country, you'd have socialism. But people want to think rich. That's the genius of the capitalist system: either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.”

“…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.”

“I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.”

“The point that the Democrats missed was that the people who weren’t rich wanted to be rich.”

“Those who ruled in high places, and had the making of the laws in their hands, were chiefly rich landowners and successful traders, and instead of trying to raise the people, create a higher standard of comfort and well-being, and better their general condition, they did their best or worst to keep them in a state of poverty and serfdom, of dependence and wretchedness.”