Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
- Edith Sitwell

Proverbs 3:5-6 (New International Version)

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
Nicholai Velimirovic

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Krishnamurti

The reverse side also has a reverse side.
- Japanese Proverb

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
- Franklin P. Adams

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
- Stanislaw Lem

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer

We are the people our parents warned us about.
- Jimmy Buffett

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
- Mark Twain

Sacred G.I.G.O.?

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
- Pierre Gallois

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard Feynman

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes


A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- Robert Frost

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
- Evan Esar

Roll with the quotes...

Since I haven't had much to say lately, I'm going to post some quotations for a lil while. - Peace, Rev. Mike

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.