The coming millennium is not for sissies, but our generation should do what it can to provide options for whatever conditions arise. We have the capacity to provide those options if we can be realistic and if we have the will.~John C. Mohawk, 1944-2006
Our heroes fade into mere personality, are consumed and forgotten, and we avidly seek more avenues to express our humanity. Reflection is the most difficult of all our activities because we are no longer able to establish relative priorities from the multitude of sensations that engulf us. Times such as these seem to illuminate the classic expressions of eternal truths and great wisdom comes to stand out in a crowd of ordinary maxims." ~Vine Deloria, Jr, from the introduction to Black Elk Speaks
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.”President Abraham Lincoln quoted by Gov. Eliot Spitzer State of the State Address 2008—9 January 2008.
"Memory says, "I did that." Pride replies, "I could not have done that." Eventually, memory yields." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in high esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." ~ Friedrich Nietzsch
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson