Bryant H. McGill
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.Collection: Architecture
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.Collection: Hope
Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Knowledge
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.Collection: Death
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.Collection: Intelligence
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.Collection: Wisdom
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.Collection: Great
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.Collection: Legal
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.Collection: Love
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.Collection: Freedom
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.Collection: Respect
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.Collection: Hope
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.Collection: Smile
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.Collection: Love
The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.Collection: Leadership
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.Collection: Equality
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Beauty
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Amazing
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.Collection: Intelligence
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.Collection: Intelligence
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.Collection: Happiness
You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.Collection: Anger
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.Collection: Forgiveness
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.Collection: Education
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.Collection: Imagination
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.Collection: Courage
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.Collection: Hope
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.Collection: Strength
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.
Materialism is an identity crisis.
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
Self-made men often worship their creator.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.