Poor Man

A man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms - the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

~Ben Hecht~

Ideas

Those people who left only monuments behind as a record of their existence have vanished with time, whereas those who left ideas have survived. A society without ideas has no history.

~Max I. Dimont~

A Simpleton and Budha

When a simpleton abused him, Budha listened in silence; but when the man finished, Budha asked him, "Son, if a man declined to accept a present made to him, to whom would it belong?" The man answered, "To him who offered it."

"My son," said Buddha, "I decline to accept your abuse, and request you to keep it for yourself."

~Will Durant~

Smell God

If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose I hold had no scent, we should know that he was wrong. The defect is in him, not in the flower. It is the same with a man who says there is no God. It merely means that he is without the capacity to discern His presence.

~Sir Ralph Richardson~