Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.

What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Simplify, simplify.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

For greed all nature is too little.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

It’s no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

I don’t care about money.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

I’m not very gifted for hairdos. I don’t like gel and all those products.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.