"Do what you feel in your heart to be right--for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

"For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!"
(Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ch. 58)

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
(Albert Einstein)

"If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time."
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President)

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
(André Gide)

"Never compromise yourself it is all you got."
(Janis Joplin)

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
(Indira Gandhi)

"When I do bad, I feel bad. When I do good, I feel good. That is my religion."
(Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65)