Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.
—Charles Lindbergh
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
—Steven Wright
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
—John Ruskin
There must be more to life than having everything.
—Maurice Sendak
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for—in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
—Ellen Goodman
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
—Diogenes
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
—John Ruskin
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
—Walt Disney
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see—they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.
—Paul Auster
Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me
This is your life—not your parents', teachers' or significant other's. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out—change your shoes and start walking.
—Jennifer Elisabeth
It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond this one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy,… or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit.
—Abbie Hoffman
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
—Euripides
It's a moment I'll remember forever, because it belongs to me.
— Jessica Sorensen in The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden