Unburdened Life Quotes

If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.

There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

I was the typical 20-, 25-, 28-year-old going around, going, 'Life is great. Life is fine.'

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.

I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy.

I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.