The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. -Felix Adler

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged. -Richard Hofstadter

No matter what happens in the attitude turn, I will not collapse and dwindle away. – James B. Clouser

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. -Haile Selassie

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