For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.

 

[the GOAT]

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

 

[the GOAT]

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

 

[the GOAT]

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

 

[the GOAT]

Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

 

[the GOAT]

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

 

[the GOAT]

The Americans will always do the right thing ... after they've exhausted all the alternatives.

 

[the GOAT]

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

 

[the GOAT]

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can close our eyes.

 

[the GOAT]

When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.

 

[the GOAT]

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

 

[the GOAT]

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

 

[the GOAT]

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

 

[the GOAT]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

 

[the GOAT]

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces; we become the powerful force ourselves.

 

[the GOAT]

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

 

[the GOAT]

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.

 

[the GOAT]

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

 

[the GOAT]

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

 

[the GOAT]

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.