Own Quotes

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don’t really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

It’s possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I begin my Property classes with the question: “do you own yourself?” Most of my students eagerly nod their heads in the affirmative, until I warn them that, by the time we finish examining this question at the end of the year, they will find their answer most troubling, whatever it may be today. “If […]

If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.