A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

When things aren't working, the natural inclination is to throw more at the problem. More people, time, and money. All that ends up doing is making the problem bigger. The right way to go is the opposite direction: Cut back.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

I am not crazy about bags or watches. For me, anywhere I go for a holiday or for work, the first thing that I go and buy are shoes.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now. This is a monumental change from the first half of life, so much so that it is almost the litmus test of whether you are in the second half of life at all.

If you don't know how to be happy with what you have, you will never be happy with more.

Plain living and high thinking are no more:The homely beauty of the good old causeIs gone; our peace, our fearful innocence,And pure religion breathing household laws.