There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

The quotation contrasts outward success—wealth, status symbols, sexual conquest—with an inward need for calm and wholeness. It frames “peace” as a harder-won, more durable goal than acquisition, implying that material abundance can coexist with (or even intensify) turmoil, addiction, loneliness, or self-conflict. Read in light of Pryor’s public persona, it also functions as an anti-glamour statement: the comedian known for excess and bravado punctures the fantasy that fame and money resolve suffering. The line’s power lies in its reversal of values, shifting the measure of a life from possessions to psychological and spiritual stability.