· All things have a beginning and an end
· There is no evidence of life after death
· Without pain, sickness, and death no God could exist.
· Control is the ultimate goal of all mankind
· All things remain “uncertain” until after they occur
· Truth and fiction are the same color in a different light
· The friends of the jester are many, of the visionary, few
· Damage done can not be reversed … it can only be identified
· Better by far to be arrogant than to lack self-esteem
· You are only as happy as you are alone
· One can not disavow the soil and roots from whence they have come and will eventually return to
· It is no one person’s obligation to alter history
· We all benefit or pay for our choices. Nothing else is due or owing
· Habits are easier to make than choices
· There is no such thing as a present without a cost
· What others think about us is not our business
· No problems can exist as long as they are called something else’s.
· It is the lack of money that is actually the root of all evil …
· The family arrangement only works when members treat each other as if they were neighbors
· Time and old age repair all character flaws
· We can’t discard the hand life gave us … we can only play it better
· Life is mostly competition
· Better to be considered a rat jumping off of a sinking ship than a courageous Captain going down with it
· Ignorance is considered brilliant when uttered by those in authority.
· Beauty automatically opens the same doors that beasts must break down
· A slave will choose “safe” over “sound.”
· Life often withholds till last that which is needed most
· Only the wise confess they are ignorant.