“How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?”

“At the end of a person's life that's what they are looking at. What happened inside? How did that experience change me, and how did I change it?”

“What really happened to her? How did she die?”

“Money had no name of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.”

“Always say what you mean and mean what you say. Express how you feel and don’t ever apologize for being real.”

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.”

“Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.”

“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”

“Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.”

“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”