“That man who has never been in dan­ger can­not answer for his courage.” –La Rochefoucauld

“Phys­i­cal courage, which despises all dan­ger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opin­ion, will make a man brave in another.  The for­mer would see most nec­es­sary for the camp, the lat­ter for […]

“Com­mand the assis­tance of a faithul friend” –Dryden

“Un amigo a todo el mundo es amigo de nadie”  (trans­lated: A friend to every­body is a friend to nobody”) –Span­ish Proverb

“False friend­ship, like the ivy, decays the wall it embraces; but true friend­ship gives new life and ani­ma­tion to the object it sup­ports.” –Burton

“Talk­ing […]

The bur­den lies with you to choose your friends and choose them wisely.  You can’t always choose your aquain­t­ences, but your friends — those you let close to your heart — can be cho­sen.  The com­mon thought of iron sharp­en­ing iron comes to mind from Proverbs 27.  How­ever, my favorite aspect of choos­ing good friends […]

Bor­rowed from Seth Godin’s blog, orig­nal article

“Inter­est­ing busi­ness les­son learned on a bicy­cle: it’s very dif­fi­cult to improve your per­for­mance on the downhills.

I used to dread the uphill parts of my ride. On a recum­bent bike, they’re par­tic­u­larly dif­fi­cult. So I’d slog through, barely sur­viv­ing, look­ing for­ward to the superspeedy […]