Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

God’s desire is that we excel.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Money has a language of its own.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Desire is the essence of a man.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.