Every student needs someone who says, simply, “You mean something. You count.” -Tony Kushner

“Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end.” -Chuang-tzu

In memory of Bill Viola.

It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. -Bill Watterson

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Jean Jacques Rousseau

I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. -Arthur Conan Doyle

“I do not strive to be different for the sake of being different, but do not mind being different if my difference is a result of my being myself” -Moondog

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. -Gwendolyn Brooks

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. -Walt Whitman

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. -Margaret Fuller

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland