Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 20

• Hold a bird too tightly and it will choke.  Hold a bird too loosely and it will fly away.

• The circulation of influence: what enters into a man is what he becomes.  What a man is, is what comes out of him.

• Emotion breeds commotion.

• Proximity plus time equals frustration.
• Knowledge plus understanding equals wisdom.
• Experience plus confidence equals trust.
• Trust plus belief equals faith.

• Attitude is a state of the spirit.

• Wisdom is obtained from the spiritual world and applied to the literal world.

• It is because the allotment of life is singular that the epiphany of the source of life's true beauty is imperative.

• Happiness in life cannot be found in the search for what satisfies.  It must begin with the self-seeking quest of what needs to be satisfied.

• Foresight is wisdom.

• If a god exists, the wisest man on Earth is he who fears Him most.

• Sin is both an action and a condition.

• Intelligence is manifested in the how more than the what.

• Age is inversely proportionate to the disposition to change.

• Self defense of the culpable precedes accusation.

• Antiquity does not negate veracity.

• The difference between friendship and courtship is tantamount to the degree to which one's problems become another's.

• It is as grave a matter to conceive a life as it is to take one.

• There are absolutes.

• The majority of happiness is based upon expectation.

• The aspect of legitimacy is the attempted justification for the sin of intemperance.

•  All manner of satisfaction is derived from the denial of immediate pleasures.

• Women are the signposts for morality in a society because what women will allow, men will do.

• The greatest folly of church division is that it sends the message that salvation is complicated.

• It is not given to man to do good to his own soul.  But he does have power to undo the good.

• Abstinence from violation of the conscience matters little when accompanied with unscrupulous appearance.

• Reputation is a creation fragile in structure, built through years of painful endeavor and shattered at a breeze's whim.

• There are two spiritual conditions: fighting and dead.

• The absence of faith is insecurity.
• The opposite of faith is fear.

• There was a time when I always had to win, but I got victory over that.

Things I Learned And Wrote By Age 19

• The difference between heroism and foolhardiness is success.

• The main characteristic of perfection is consistency, and therefore predictability.

• Romanticism is justice.

• A true man has mastered Ecclesiastes 3:1

• Open-mindedness is to assume first that oneself is wrong. 
• It is possible to be too open-minded.

• The main problem with philosophizing is that too often the conclusion is reached before all factors are considered.

• Open eyes are as good as an open mind.
• An open heart is better than an open mind.

• The currency of life is time.
• The greatest investment is the investment of memories.

• One cannot not communicate.

• The greatest pain for a parent, aside from losing a child, is to see a child fall into the same mistakes the parent made.

• Confidence is built through repeated success.

• The art of communication lies in the placing of silence.

• If you give enough people a piece of your mind, you won't have one left.

• Practicality is the opposite of romanticism.

• Believers in God would accept affliction if they knew why God sent it.

• Art is the opposite of science.
• Science can be measured, art cannot.
• Science can be exactly replicated, art cannot.
• Science is, regardless of human intervention.  Art is, because of human intervention.
• Art is perfected through human imperfection.