Welcome to Noir Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the inspirational

living podcast. Today's talk was edited and adapted from

A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman, published in 1919.

The richest person is the one who deserves the most friends.

Wealth is a matter of the heart and not of the pocket.

It is not that which others do for us, that makes us possessors of great wealth,

but that which we do for others.

All true riches are self-made.

Only when the hand and the heart are put into one's work, does it yield a lasting worth.

In the final true analysis, the picture forever belongs to the painter who paints it, the poem

to the poet who writes it, the loaf of bread to the worker who earns it.

Wealth may acquire these things, but it cannot own them.

Therefore the true value of character

is something that each of us must achieve for ourselves.

It cannot be bought.

It cannot be be bequeathed to us.

It must be earned by each individual who possesses it.

Hence it is that these great riches may be acquired by all who desire to possess them. Where are they to be found? Right here.

When may we obtain them? Right now.

Would you like to learn the only way in which you can come into their

possession? Well, listen to the advice of Rebecca Harding Davis, who once said,

whoever you are, wise or foolish, rich or poor, God sent you into the world as he sent every other human being,

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