James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist.

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

How good something is should never be determined by its cost designer origin or its perceived value by others

If we have not quiet in our minds outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot

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

Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

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

For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes.

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Increase of material comforts it may be generally laid down does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.