And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money.

Chocolate, men, coffee — some things are better rich.

Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

'Tis the gift to be simple,'Tis the gift to be free,'Tis the gift to come downWhere we ought to be.

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

Better a dry morsel and quietness than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

I still can't believe it was news that I get my hair cut at the barbershop. Where else would I get it cut? Why do I drive a pickup truck? What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce? Nowadays