“Honour cannot be hoarded. Integrity cannot adorn a room. There is no courage in gold.”

“Without fear there cannot be courage.”

Christopher Paolini (1983) American author

“Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.”

Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon

“A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.”

Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…

“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool. ]”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“In case the buyer wishes this act of integration of the work of art with himself to take place, Yves Klein must.... plus two witness, throw half of the gold received in the ocean, into a river or in some place of nature where this gold cannot be retrieved by anyone. From this moment on, the immaterial pictorial sensitivity zone belongs to the buyer absolutely and intrinsically.”

Yves Klein (1928–1962) French artist

“However social integration cannot be forced and not proceed at the pace that the community considers uncomfortable.”

Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) Fijian politician