To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. – Orison Swett Marden

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a normal person. – John Forbes Nash