After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

I don't really have a treasured possession, but I do love my family's proper old photo album. We all have hundreds of photos on our phones now, but you can't beat the old albums stuffed with black-and-white wedding photographs and 1970s Polaroids.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

My most prized possession is my pillow. I can't travel or sleep without it. And it's, like, this really thin down pillow that really doesn't do anything, but it's weird: if I don't have it, I'm constantly thinking about not having it.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

A smile and good energy. They will take you farther than any material possession.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.