To laugh often and much;
        to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
           children;
        to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the
           betrayal of false friends;
        to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
        to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
           a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
        to know even one life has breathed easier because you have
           lived.
        This is to have succeeded.

                                 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson



        The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes;
        they always dwell within their borders.  And from these
        internal enemies civilization is always in need of being
        saved.  The nation blessed above all nations is she in whom
        the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by
        acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing,
        voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly, by
        good temper between parties; by the people knowing true
        men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to
        rabid partisans or empty quacks.

                                 -- William James


        The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

                                 -- Eldridge Cleaver


        Practically all the major technological changes since the
        beginning industrialization have resulted in unforeseen
        consequences ...  Our very power over nature threatens to
        become itself a source of power that is out of control ...
        Choices are posed that are too large, too complex, too
        important and comprehensive to be safely left to fallible
        human beings.

                                 -- Herman Kahn and Anthony Wiener


	Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and
	durable happiness there is in our lives.

				 -- C.S. Lewis


	Where principle is concerned, be deaf to expediency.

				 -- James Webb

        He who marches joyfully in rank and file has already
        earned my contempt. A large brain has been wasted on
        this individual, since for him, a spinal cord would
        suffice.

                                 -- Albert Einstein


        It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that
        no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

                                 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


        The face of the wise man is not somber or
        austere, contracted by anxiety and sorrow,
        but precisely the opposite: radiant and
        serene, and filled with a vast delight, which
        often makes him the most playful of men.

                                 -- Philo


        Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have
        been told it . . . or because it is traditional, or because
        you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what
        your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the
        teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and
        analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the
        benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe
        and cling to, and take it as your guide.

                                 -- The Buddha


        Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they
        do it from religious conviction.

                                 -- Blaise Pascal


        There is incredible value in being of service to others.  
        I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out 
        to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working 
        line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

                                 -- Elizabeth Berg


        I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us
        with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to 
        forgo their use.

                                 -- Galileo Galilei


        Ubi dubium ibi libertas:  Where there is doubt, there is freedom

                                 -- Latin Proverb


        Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little 
        temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
 
                                 -- Benjamin Franklin


        I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too 
        much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

                                 -- Thomas Jefferson


        The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our 
        own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive 
        others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

                                 -- John Stuart Mill


        I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord 
        liberty to me.  If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they 
        aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, 
        because they enslave the minds of men.

                                 -- Robert Ingersoll


        I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death 
        your right to say it.

                                 -- Beatrice Hall


        No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who 
        does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

                                 -- Karl Popper


        Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview -- nothing 
        more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive 
        of openness to novelty.

                                 -- Stephen Jay Gould


        We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on 
        others is that they might someday force theirs on us.

                                 -- Mario Cuomo


        To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept 
        moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require 
        moral reasoning.
 
                                 -- Michael Shermer


        It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

                                 -- Thomas Huxley