What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

How many things are there which I do not want. – Socrates

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text. – Patrick J. Buchanan

If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. – Annie Dillard, “Seeing,” Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974