"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - A. Einstein

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein

"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest." -Unknown

"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." -Unknown

"Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." -- Adlai Stevenson

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain

"The wiser you are, the more you believe in equality, because the difference bet ween what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to all that is unknown" -Albert Einstein

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -- H. L. Mencken