Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
~ Arthur James Balfour

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
~ Buddha

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
~ Warren Buffett

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
~ Samuel Butler

That which costs little is less valued.
~ Miguel De Cervantes

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
~ Marcus T. Cicero

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
~ Roy Disney

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
~ Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
~ William Hazlitt

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.
~ Hsi-Tang

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
~ W. Stanley Jevons

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
~ Samuel Johnson

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
~ Samuel Johnson

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
~ Ryszard Kapuscinski

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
~ Ann Landers

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
~ C. S. Lewis