Material Quotes

I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

Your soul cannot take material things with it. All the “stuff” does not matter. How you make others feel matters.

Each material has its own message.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.

My mental space is when I get to a place of creativity, and I can just be myself while I am writing and connecting with the material.

Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.