"Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you."
— Anonymous (Bible: New King James Version, Pocket Companion)

"No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity."
— Rush Limbaugh

"To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes."
— Jane Jacobs

"Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors."
— Dryden

"If you want one year of prosperity, plant corn, if you want ten years of prosperity, plant trees, if you want one hundred years of prosperity, educate people. "
— Chinese proverb

"Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing."
— John Cheever