Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

Don't accumulate possessions, accumulate experiences or vice versa.

Defining moments. Intentional strategies. Adventurous living. Most of us spend our trips around the sun accumulating the wrong things. Possessions are a dime a dozen. Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.