Sunday, July 12, 2026

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

We are so very 'umble.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I wrote a letter to my Dad - I wrote, "I really enjoy being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I wrote, "I rarely drive steamboats, Dad - there's a lot of stuff you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator." This letter took a harsh turn right away.

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

I wish the rent Was heaven sent.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.