You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
One of my favorite luxuries in life is travel. Jet lag and lost baggage aside, it's an incredible way to learn about other cultures, meet new people, broaden your horizons... and do some amazing shopping!
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.