"We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us."- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed." - John Dewey

"A life is not important, except in the impact it has on other lives." -- Jackie Robinson

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." -- Forest Witcraft

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert H. Humphrey

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!" - Margaret Meade

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator." - Francis Bacon

"The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery." - Lao-Tzu

"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Sun Tzu

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions." - Jassamyn West

"What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." --Henry David Thoreau

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." - William Dement

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." - M. C. Escher

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Ellen Parr

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." - Mark Twain

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." - Wilson Mizner

"The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails." - Clarence Darrow

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We are the echo of the future. " - W. S. Merwin

"Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right." Jerry Garcia

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend." - Kurt Vonnegut

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't." - Eleanor Rooseveldt

"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have leant me." - Anatole France

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." - Erma Bombeck

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack." - Winston Churchill

"We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation." - Lily Tomlin

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge". - Albert Einstein

"There are things in the Universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless, and if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried and we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on. They are a mystery and I am both terrified and reassured that to know that there are still wonders in the Universe, that we have not explained everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957 and they must walk there alone." G'Kar - Mind War

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" - Benjamin Franklin

"It is people of character who throw the switch, it is people of character who ask probing questions" - John Cowan

"Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective." Delenn - A Distant Star

"The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way." -Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

"Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long". - Ogden Nash

"The Lord in His Wisdom made the fly, Then forgot to tell us why." - Ogden Nash

"The unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the unknown" - Joseph Cook

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires". - William Arthur Ward

"Give me chastity and continence but not yet." Saint Augustine

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.E.)

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place" - Mohandas Gandhi

"We're on a mission from God" -The Blues Brothers, Elroy

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself". Mark Twain

"I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be taught." - Winston Churchill

"How could a state be governed..if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law" - Hobbes

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace with yourself" - Amelia Earhart

"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach." - Ted Koppel

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves" - Eric Hoffer

"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood sex and the dead." - William Butler Yeats

"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men" - Abraham Lincoln

"The safest way to avoid hypocrisy is simple; eliminate the standards one might have trouble keeping" - R Scott Richards

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus

"Guidelines for bureaucrats: 1) When in charge ponder 2) When in trouble delegate 3) When in doubt mumble" - James H. Boren

"Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent" - Boies Penrose

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice" - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance: we don't know because we don't want to know" - A. Huxley

"How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms" - Aristotle

"For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it" - P.W. Bridgman

"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor" - Eric Hoffer

"A child miseducated is a child lost." - J.F. Kennedy

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to" - Joseph Heller, Catch22

"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace." - Dalai Lama

"When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'We did this ourselves'. Lao-tsu

"Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?" - Sect. 6. Pliny the Elder. 23-79 A. D.

"There is only one Maker in the world and His children cover the Earth and they are naned All God's Children." Carl Sandberg - Timesweep.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for". - Ogden Nash

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams in his series, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Imagination is more important than intelligence." - Albert Einstein

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. God is subtle but surely he is not malicious." - Albert Einstein