A sad reality that exists in the world persists among many. I lived in one as a child as well. It's very nightmarish thinking back.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Neil Gaiman

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Joseph E. Granville

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

Mencius

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

John Gray

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.

Edward W. Ziegler

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

Bea Arthur

I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Stephen King

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

American Indian Proverb, Navajo

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

Gil Scott-Heron