Brian Gockley

“The Adult’s approach to the worth of persons … would follow these lines. I am a person. You are a person. Without you I am not a person, for only through you is language made possible and only through language is thought made possible, and only through thought is humanness made possible. You have made me important. Therefore, I am important and you are important. If I devalue you, I devalue myself. This is the rationale of the”
― Allan Metcalf, OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

“Magnitude of mind grows with accurate scrutiny of what appears before us and the logical consideration of what purpose it fulfills in the Cosmos and what the operation of that Cosmos is and what its value is to us.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Celestial Mechanics: a tale for a mid-winter night