Be happy, but never satisfied.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

But godliness with contentment is great gain' (v.6)—there is the glory and excellence of it; as if to suggest that godliness were not gain except contentment be with it.

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I though, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had.

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

We can have everything. No, we can't. We can have the whole world. No, we can't. We can go everywhere. No, we can't. It isn't ours any more. Its ours. No, it isn't.