What we value shapes how we see, how we spend our days, and how we love. As Samuel Johnson reminded us: “All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.”

There is value in everybody's gift, no matter how hard to find or how strange it is. ~ Tori Amos

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? ~ Alan Greenspan

Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away. ~ Sophocles

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. ~ Charles Dudley Warner

That which costs little is less valued. ~ Miguel de Cervantes

If you want to know the value of an individual, ask not for the sum of all that he owns, but look instead to the total of all that he has given. ~ Douglas K. Freeman

Every man I meet is in some way my superior. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. ~ Mark Twain

What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ~ Thomas Paine

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~ Albert Einstein

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~ Confucius

Your soul has a single basic function — the act of valuing. ~ Ayn Rand