"Education is not to reform students or to amuse them or to make them expert 
technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame 
their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. "
               					--- Robert M. Hutchins



 "Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular
passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a
perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of
knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."
		 				--- Ben Hecht


"Any fool can know. The point is to understand"
						--- Albert Einstein


There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend
                                                --- Socrates 




God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
						--- Reinhold Niebuhr



In a good cause there are no failures, there are only delayed successes
						--- Asimov