Not every smile is genuine some are just the bared fangs of wolves about to eat you - rjs

Ignorance is not bliss its painful and embarrassing

Many are they who seek to guide other to the path yet they themselves are lost

Ignorance is a crime against ones self

By denying the youth an education you murder the future RjS

Its only by educating the youth to challenge you that you remove the chains on their minds that you have placed thereRjS

I gave you up and died a little each day

Fear no one nor kneel before themFor many seek to be your god and masterAnd you sacrificial lamb in their fevered plansAnd insane ambitionsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

Make not the scars of yesterdayMake you bitter todayYesterday has passedAnd like water in a river once passed Can never be returnedThe KhoiSan Book of Wisdom

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.