"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness." Henry David Thoreau "Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance." Michael Harrington "Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion." The Talmud "Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor." Samuel …