The rightness of a thing isn’t determined by the amount of courage it takes. -Mary Renault

When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. -William Least Heat-Moon

Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who’s selling fear. -Mary Doria Russell

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