Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won’t be made safer by creating barriers between people. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. -Michael Palin-

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. -Aristotle-

Don’t use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

Obey what the Bible says, not what men say the Bible says.

Bafflegab is multiloquence characterized by consummate interfusion of circumlocution or periphrasis, inscrutability, and other familiar manifestations of abstruse expatiation commonly utilitzed for promulgations implementing Procrustean determinations by governmental bodies. -Milton A. Smith-

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. -Albert Einstein-

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can. -LCDR Robert W. Copeland, USN 25 OCT 1944-

Parents: just when you think you’ve got them pegged, they turn around and show you they love you. -Capt. B.F. “Hawkeye” Pierce, “M*A*S*H”-

It never fails to amaze me. You’re alive, then you’re dead. No horns, no flashing lights, no fanfare. You’re just dead. -Maj. Margaret Houlihan, “M*A*S*H”-