"Everything that is done on these West Texas plains ought to be on a big scale. It is a country that lends itself to bigness." -Paul W Horn, President, Texas Technological College, 1926

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" - John A. Shedd

"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer." - Mother Teresa

"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." -Pastor Martin Niemoller

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
John W. Tukey. Exploratory Data Analysis. 1977.

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
Jean Jacques Rousseau

"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." President Franklin D. Roosevelt