Random Quotations
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
Mahatma Gandhi
"An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because it is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
John Gardner, Excellence, 1961
"Never before has man had such capacity to control his own destiny, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the worldor make it the last."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy