The Personal SonnetIf you want to be heard,You must learn to listen.If you want to be trusted,You must keep trustin'.If you want to grow,You must first evolve.If you want to be happy,Let yourself dissolve.If you want to smile,You must learn to give.If you want to lead,Help others to live.Law of the jungle is self-preservation.Law of society is collective ascension.

Home is where freedom is, community is where accountability is.

Foster kinship over skinship.

Character means everything that is human about you… Character means a sense of community - character means a desire for learning and growth - character means the guts to admit and mend one's own errors and shortcomings - character means the yearning for assimilation.

Just people taking care of people - that's the simple gospel for a happy, healthy and prosperous living.

When conviction and humility combine, something magical happens to the world - it turns from a savage, self-centric, prejudiced kingdom of animals to a civilized, community-centric, self-regulated and evolving society of humans.

Breathing alone is like choking to death. A breath shared is a breath well lived.

Forget not, we are but each other's keeper,Born not to be intellectual, but drunken lover.

You can dress up a chimpanzee in a fancy suit, but that doesn't turn the chimpanzee into a human, but if that chimp can share his meal with another hungry chimp, then that chimp is more human than all of the selfish humanity combined. Appearance doesn't make you human, your behavior does - your accountability does - your sense of community does.