“For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

“Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.”

“Finally, to be an open-minded person, you must let go of how you look at things and focus on how they are in themselves.”

“There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.”

“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”

“I am basically a Clinton Democrat - perhaps more along the lines of how Clinton would have done things as benevolent dictator, or at least with a Dem Congress at his disposal, than how things were run in the 90s, but no flaming progressive.”

“All we are now concerned with is the search for “new and improved” version of whatever means are already available for attaining goals such means make possible. The value of the goals themselves is irrelevant … What counts is doing things better than before. Whether such things are worth doing in the first place is no longer a question.”

“How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?”