Creed

• I believe one's initial and foremost education (viz. knowledge of values) must come from the home, to be a well-read and learned student of classic literature, enlightenment and nature.
• I believe one must find time to enjoy at least one love affair before reaching the age of sixteen. (Goethe)
• I believe one ought to maintain at least one unconditional friendship with the opposite sex.
• I believe one must make every effort to travel beyond one's hometown, county, state and/or country, i.e. study abroad.
• I believe that "all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty..." (Mencken)
• I believe in times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. (Orwell)
• I believe one cannot study the darkness by flooding it with light. (E. Abbey)
• I believe that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. (Zinn)
• I believe no one is free, for even the birds remain chained to the sky. (Dylan)
• I believe solitude - though it be silent as light - is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to all, for all come into this world, alone, and leave it, alone. (de Quincey)