“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”
“[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.”
“It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance”
“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
“Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.”
“Rather free than rich”