Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

In an affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

Souls are more often sold for luxuries than necessities.

His life was one long extravagance, like living inside a Faberge egg.

Give me all the luxuries of life, and I will willingly do without the necessities.

The superfluous is the most necessary.

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Luxury, today, is solitude and silence.