Frank A. Clark Quotes

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

I don't like possessions.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

I am totally unattached to material items.

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

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

Material things don't matter.