Contentment with what we have — whether it is possessions, or station in life, or mental or physical abilities — is worth far, far more than all the things we don't have.

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.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Buying something ultimately comes down to feeling good about the purchase.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.