On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty.

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.