There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.