Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Slowly...

I am slowly working my way through Nelson Mandela's biography. I found this text to be thought provoking.

'There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity of others'...