"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear"-- Ambrose Redmoon

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."--Einstein

"Reticence is the only refuge for a competent mind in a crowd."--Francis Grierson

"Metaphors cannot be distanced just by abstaining from them. They have to be exposed, criticized, belabored, used up."--Susan Sontag

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world...Indeed it's the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Meade

"There are not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses."--Foucault

"There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying such things."--Foucault

"Ignorance is as potent and as multiple a thing [around the closet] as is knowledge."--Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

"Scandal is gossip made tedious with morality." -- Oscar Wilde

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."- The Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson by Mark Twain

"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."--Robert Frost

"One man with courage is a majority."--Thomas Jefferson

"Do what you will, but harm none."--Wiccan Rede

"The mind should not multiply entities beyond necessity. What can be done with fewer...is done in vain with more."--William of Ockham

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."--Tolstoy

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten."--Unattributed

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."--Henry Ford

"Artists are just like other people, only more so."--Ned Rorem

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."--Emerson (Essay on Self Reliance)