I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would professional sports and television and news and movies.

For us political activists and candidates the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

Ah lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in or the fortunes they have met with.