The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven’t the time or energy to keep score. - Studs Terkel

The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody. Mother Jones Magazine - Sep 1995

Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph

Money brings security, that was the idea. But it turned out to be just the opposite. If you have a great big house, that meant you had to be fearful again: somebody might rob you. If you had a great big store, you had to be fearful now that there’s gonna be a riot — and everything in your store would be stolen. See, money brings more fear than security.