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It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!