Lauryn Hill

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.

All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth, who won’t accept deception instead of what is truth.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold. I was hopeless, now I’m on hope road.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

We went to theatres and museums with a crowd of bodyguards.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

I think it’s sad when people make a lot of money and they want the biggest boat or the biggest car or the biggest plane.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.

very day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

He is richest who is content with the least.

Abramovich’s got six yachts which are just gigantic and you think, ‘What a waste of money. He could transform so many people’s lives if he put that money to good use.