“To be a real man is to be unattached—not to be hustled by things, not to be owned by them, not to be afraid of them.”— James Truslow Adams
“I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty.”— Lee Atwater
“Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened.”— Nicholson Baker
“If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.”— Maurice Baring
“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.”— George Berkeley
“We have got to have a spiritual regeneration. The material conception of life has been the curse of this country.”— Ernest Bevin