“That things have no hold on the soul. They stand there unmoving, outside it. Disturbance comes only from within - from our own perceptions.” Marcus Aurelius

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." ― Robert F. Kennedy

“…we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.” The Boondock Saints

“…The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite…” President Dwight D. Eisenhower