Bryant H. McGill

“The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.”

“All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.”

“The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.”

“Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.”

“Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.”

“The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.”

“In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.”

“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.”

“Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.”

“Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.”

“Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.”

“If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.”

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”

“There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.”

“The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.”

“There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.”

“American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.”

“Suffering is one of life's great teachers.”

“Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.”

“Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.”