Live Within Our Means, Even if it Requires Borrowing

"Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with." -- Charles Farrar Browne

Virtue Alone, Not Money, Can Make People Happy

"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience." -- Ludwig van Beethoven

Not Money, Self Worth Determines Happiness

"Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have." -- Zig Ziglar

Poor & Happy Better or Moderately Rich & Moody

“They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?” -- Princess Diana

Friends More Valuable Capital Than Money

"No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money..." -- Orison Swett Marden

Alan Alda: Riches Bring Happiness, Fame Just Icing

"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it's only necessary to be rich." -- Alan Alda

Louisa May Alcott: Money a Precious & Noble Thing

“Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.” -- from the book, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Spiritual Snobs Believe in Happiness Without Money

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money." -- Albert Camus