When your soul is satisfied, you have everything even if you have nothing. And when your soul is not at peace, you have nothing no matter what you have attained or acquired.

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

Be satisfied with what you have.

Can't always have life the way we want it. But there's always pizza.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.