Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection. . . Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.