Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Many possessions if they do not make a man better are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

When the Nobel award came my way it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions including literacy basic health care and gender equity aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions and it took its toll on all my relationships on my physical health my emotional and mental health.

All mankind... being all equal and independent no one ought to harm another in his life health liberty or possessions.

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.

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.