No Dak Boy's Wisdom Page

9Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. 10Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him[a] to make him stumble. 11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him. 1 John 2:9-11 (New International Version)

The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.

Oh, threats of hell and hopes of paradise! / One thing at least is certain -- this life flies; / One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; / The flower that once has blown forever dies.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

“Rational action is generally the slave of our emotional nature, because only when passion is stirred do we then find the will to act rationally.”

Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

I visualize therefore I become.