“Some things in life are bigger than our needs and when our simple needs are transcended, the wise know to let go - from "Opoponax Dreams”

“It is our time, our task and our destiny - from "Opoponax Dreams”

“Great treasures bring out great greed in the hearts of men and great greed has been the downfall of many nations. - from "Opoponax Dreams”

“Society and personal integrity erode one small sin at a time. The most dangerous things are the little "inconsequential" slips that we let slide every day.”

“It is worry, not problems, that causes a lack of sleep.”

“The friend is a human EdenBut Eden is so easily lostWhen you choose, choose wiselyBefore you share, count the cost”

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”