Few can resist a mirror.
If your music is good,
it will be heard.
Maximizing profit encourages exploitation.
Always there is another mountain.
Compliments validate.
Enter desire; exit objectivity.
Men: virile, violent, and vulnerable.
For many, eating has little to do with hunger or nutrition.
Imaginary gods are divisive and diversionary
to the human prospect.
Kindness returns.
Obsessions distort.
Exploitation thrives
on short-term thinking.
Anger’s entrance is reason’s departure.
Creative minds rarely rest.
Entertainers need audiences.
Imagine a world without locks.
Knowledge is plentiful;
wisdom is rare.
Misunderstandings are inevitable.
Everyone would like
to look better.
What some adore others deplore.
Bullies are the first to cower.
We are so alike
and so different.
Often too late we perceive that
by which we are threatened.
Credit is the flip side of blame.
Creativity is beyond constraint.
Errors litter the path of learning.
Force invites resistance.
Imperceptibly, we grow.
Life breeds caution.
We are always someone’s child.
Mortality is to know you have fewer years
remaining than you’ve lived.
Anything can be argued.
Crises blur the lines
that separate people.
Greed is a horrible thing.
Initiative is rewarded.
Life forever presents
unique experiences.
Most of what we have and enjoy
someone else created.
One is tempted to conclude that
on this planet evil is winning.
As you treat others,
so will you be treated.
Our self-centered survival instincts
are destroying us all.
Curiosity sells news.
Even palaces can be prisons.
Greed is a symptom of fear.
Insincere lovemaking can be like overeating:
short-term pleasure, long-term cost.
Life hardens.
Most overestimated is our self-importance.
Our emotions are too strong
for our intellects.
Skepticism beckons.
Everything is objectionable
to someone.
Life is brief.