Echoes

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, 'Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel Catch-22 has earned in its entire history?' And Joe said, 'I've got something he can never have.' And I said, 'What on earth could that be, Joe?' And Joe said, 'The knowledge that I've got enough.' Not bad!

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt, either, that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics. That has given me more satisfaction than a footprint on a mountain.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, compassionate.

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

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

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.