Wisdom

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Varzo looked with shame at her boots. “Look, I wasn’t serious, alright? It was just a thought.”Mercy shook her head. “Shitty thoughts become shitty actions, kid. You really gone your entire life without recognizing there's ah link between the two?

Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.

I never forgive but I always forget.

But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will.

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.

She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory.Yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's the good stable arseholes like us who are remembered best.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

Strong anger can only make you weaker than you already are.

Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear.

Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

There is no Social Media without Women... It ceases to exist!

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cupcakes than others; some are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplaceor probing authoritatively the unknown.::: Brett Whiteley :::.