“The most precious possessions in life cannot be touched by human hands; foremost, is the fulfillment of inner peace.”

“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”

“To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life — bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live them — then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.”

“Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.”

“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”

“They were allowed a little touch at each of the books, but only with their fingertips tonight, literature cannot bear dirty hands; first we'll have to back each volume with paper, the covers must not get dirty, nor the spines slit, books are the nation's most precious possession, books have preserved the nation's life through monopoly, pestilence, and volcanic eruption, not to mention the tons of snow that have lain over the country's widely scattered homesteads for the major part of every one of its thousand years.”

“Love for life is, first and foremost, a responsibility to enrich it with spirituality and humanism.”

“The modernist object does not possess inner life; only internal conflicts.”

“The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.”

“A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.”