“Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.”
“Something that is yours forever is never precious”
“How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.”
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
“Someone out there is looking for exactly what you ve got…and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth. Some things in life just can’t be bartered over or placed on the sale rack – and your self-worth is at the top of the list.”
“Don t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I ll tell you what you value.”
“As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.”
“And who s to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?”
“Value is more expensive than price.”
“You only value something if you know it’ll end.”
“If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.”
“But what s worth more than gold? Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren t you worth more than that?”
“Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that s because my pearls are black, hers were white.”
“In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.”
“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”
“Sometimes in life we make the mistake of hearing valuable information without listening.”