I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

Few things are as essential as education.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

Accomplish something every day of your life.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

When we hold back out of laziness that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.