Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

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

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Material possessions winning scores and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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.

I learn from thinking about the future what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

If I studied all my life I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

I understand by this passion the union of desire friendship and tenderness which is inflamed by a single female which prefers her to the rest of her sex and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food but with the price of food.

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing unless it's like jeans it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.