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My philosophy is to make money.

We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

You work for whatever you get in life.

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.