Lynn Derks

“And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what we know we can never attain, or what some secret wisdom tells us it would be uncomfortable or saddening to possess.”
― Thornton Wilder

“Thinking it was easy to take a chance on things if you had nothing to lose -- politics, ideas, almost anything in fact; from the bottom of the ladder you could safely risk a fall, but the higher that you climbed the more cautious you must be.”
― Flavin, Martin

“Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, London

“But only in mad people fear goes on constant night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November