One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

We need to be free if we are to love.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

You can't help people that don't want to be helped.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.