Cherokee Traveler's Greeting

I will draw thorns from your feet.
We will walk the White Path of Life together.
Like a brother of my own blood,
I will love you.
I will wipe tears from your eyes.
When you are sad,
I will put your aching heart to rest.

"We spend so much time shouting our opinions at each other, stressing our importance, that we can no longer hear those things which don't have to shout to be important."

-- Ken Masters, 1992
speaking at a congressional breakfast in Washington DC

“Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.”

Discourses 1.4.17 [Oldfather Trans.]

The society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
--Benjamin Franklin

“Diogenes says somewhere: ‘The one sure way to secure freedom is to die cheerfully.’”

Discourses 4.1.30 [Oldfather Trans.]