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The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.