“We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth.”

“As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.”

“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.”

“Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.”

“Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.”

“The Greeks say it's a sin against the gods to love something beyond all reason. And do you remember that they say when someone is loved so, the gods become jealous, and strike the object down in the very fullness of its flower?”

“Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’vegot none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring upthe masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the moneygives out.”