Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.
Derek R. AudetteNo matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.
Derek R. AudetteThe nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.
Derek R. AudetteNever be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.
Derek R. AudetteI do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.
Derek R. Audette