Friend Quotes

The desire of gold is not for gold.

It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold

if the market shut down for 10 years.

A typical vice of American politics is

the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

The more you know,

the more you can enjoy what’s happening.

Everything should be made as simple as possible,

but not simpler.

God writes the Gospel not

in the Bible alone, but

also on trees, and in the

flowers and clouds and stars.

You can’t have a better tomorrow

if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Courage is the first of human qualities

because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Do the thing we fear,

and death of fear is certain.

Dreams are free.

Goals have a cost.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

You don’t have to be smarter than the rest.

You have to be more disciplined.

Men do not shape destiny,

destiny produces the man for the hour.

Hold on with a bulldog grip,

and chew and choke as much as possible.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God

who has endowed us with sense, reason,

and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I tell you,

we are here on Earth to fart around,

and don’t let anybody tell you different.

M Alphabet and Letter in Red

Be thine own palace,

or the world's thy jail

John Donne