Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. Joe Clark

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/society/coffin.html

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human. William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript310_full.html

Oh! love!… That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. Edward Abbey (1927 – 1989)

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. Dean Acheson (1893 – 1971)

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money