To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Henry David Thoreau

One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard

Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.

Langston Hughes

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Stanislav Grof

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

James Bovard

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Mark Twain

Sincerity is moral truth.

George Henry Lewes

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Antoine Lavoisier

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Paul Tournier

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Henry Miller

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Doug Gwyn