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For my part, whatever anguish in spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the who le truth--to know the worst

and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that's the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judgin g of the future but by the past. -Patrick Henry Broken eggs cannot be mended. -Proverb Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. -David Hume The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neuro tic that he is possessed by his fantasy. -Lionel Trilling Here we are and we must make the best of it. -Winston Churchill Success is determined not by our private will, but in relation to objective real ities. -Alfred Adler It is so. It cannot be otherwise. -Inscription on ruins, 15th century cathedral , Amsterdam, Holland. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. -Albert Ei nstein Few people have the imagination for reality. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A posse ad esse. From possibility to actuality. -Latin Quotation The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of thing s which are beyond it. -Blaise Paschal If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. -Oriental Proverb Move onward serenely, cast aside regret, cleanse and purify life, only be undism ayed and hopeful, as you turn page after page of the revelation of God. -Arthur C. Benson The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left un done. -Harriet Beecher Stowe I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it shou ld have. -Leonardo Da Vinci If sorrow could enter heaven, if a sigh could be heard there, or a tear roll dow n the cheek of a saint in light, it would be for lost opportunities, for the tim e spent in neglect of God which might have been spent for his glory. -Payson Call six people out of the telephone book, tell then you are from the World Book Encyclopedia asking them if they have a few minutes to talk and listen to them hang-up. You will no longer fear rejection. -Roger Dawson Only 1 in 100,000 people alive today has any insight into what Einstein's relati vity is all about. -Abraham Pas When you just ease the burden of your mind you just do it. -Bruce Lee Religion cannot be proved by theoretical reason. -Immanuel Kant Religion assigns values to truth. -Tigor The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. -Elaine Boosler Religion can inspire such evil things. -Lucretius My own mind is my own church. -Thomas Paine Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the nonexistent. -Elbert Hubbard God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. -Unknown A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. -Mohandas Gandhi Remember, the essence of religion is, a heart void of offense toward God and man ; not subtle speculative opinions, but an active principle of faith. -William P itt Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. -Da Vinci Being to advise or reprehend anyone, consider whether it ought to be in public o r in private, presently or at some other time, also in what terms to do it; and in reproving show no signs of choler, but do it with sweetness and mildness. -1 10 Rules of Civility Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has th ought. -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi One may most surely earn the esteem of the people by the best words and the fine

st actions. -Agesilaus Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show th emselves great. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. -Albert Einste in There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred ye ars it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. -Alfred Adler And that's all I want, for people to know the story (Hotel Rwanda), to know that there are worlds outside our own to pay attention to. -Don Cheadle Each of us is a center of initiative force and creative power. -Immanuel Kant Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -George Bernard Sh aw If you do not take responsibility for your own development, no one will. -Ford Harding No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. -Stanislaus Lezczynsk The individual's health depends upon the health of the society; the health of a society depends upon the health of it's individuals. -M. Scott Peck Trust in God but lock your car. -Unknown You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think t hat the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift t ogether and pull together. -Henry Ford Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. -John Milton Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people w ill find a way around the laws. -Plato Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life' s greatest tests alone. -Agnes Macphail If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility o n their shoulders. -Abigail Van Buren Have teenager own and operate their own business before they graduate. -Unknown Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see blame as foolishness. -Epictetus Everyone, in the final analysis, is in business for himself. -Saying There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that 's your own self. -Aldous Huxley It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I believe that souls can be mended. I believe that people can change if they wan t to. -Belinda Ali We want aluminum, not excuses. -Harry Truman There are no rules here, we are just trying to accomplish something. -Thomas Ed ison

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