The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. 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 saltiness of those dead sea apples.

Be satisfied with what you have.

In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

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

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

I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

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.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.