Bill Madden

“Independent thinkers have always been a threat to those whose courage lies in the masses.”

“There are people with superior intellect, but lack wisdom, and people who are not intellectually gifted, but extremely wise, then there are those inverted unicorns who lack both. Trump is th...”

“As a child, the adults were my heroes. But as an adult with cancer, it’s the children who are my heroes.”

“Everyone is born an artist. What differentiates us are the variations of creativity.”

“If I am less kind than I was yesterday, then I am failing as a human being.”

“You’re like a flower that’s ready to bloom, but never truly trusts the sun.”

“Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.”

“You’ll never truly know how strong your spiritual practice is until you’re faced with your own mortality. Until you’re faced with an incurable disease, and you realize that the greater battl...”

“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”

“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”

“Anger is energy: If you hold on to it, it’ll infect you. But if you channel it into something positive — great things are possible.”