The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.

If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken.

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

Street children are lovely blossoms just dropped from the tree after a heavy storm. Now they need to be put together with a needle and threads of security and shelter to live into a beautiful circle of life’s garland.

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.