A person's responsibility to society increases proportionately with his or her assets. Everything we have has come to us from and through society. This is true of possessions, of fame, and of power. And society has not given it to us for our own selfish use. Society has bestowed it on us so that we can return it to society in an appropriate manner. To put it another way, the more you have, the more frugal you should be, and the more responsibility you have to lead social trends in a healthy direction by working harder than others and by being more frugal than others.

Every Street Is Paved With Gold (1992), p. 141