Some of my fav quotes from the great minds I admire--

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.


Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.


Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.


For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.