I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have in any small way succeeded is to me a prize beyond measure, the most wonderful wealth that I could ask for, a form of prosperity that I would wish for the whole world to experience and enjoy.

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

After all, money is only a means to an end! It's only a tool to be used cautiously as well as sagaciously!

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?