Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves.

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing-that's the Lord's test.

Always think of the days of scarcity' during the days of abundance, so that you will not long for the days of abundance during times of scarcity.

The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

I believe that honor and money nearly always go together... . Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?