Frank Howard Clark Quotes

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

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

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

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

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

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

I did everything I wanted to when I had nothing.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

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

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

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

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.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

The more we have the less we own.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I don't have a lot of clothes or a lot of possessions to bog me down.

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.