>>>>"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."
>>
>>How about John Donne's "No man is an island?" (you may recognize another famous misquotation as well:)
>>
>>No man is an island,
>>Entire of itself,
>>Every man is a piece of the continent,
>>A part of the main.
>>If a clod be washed away by the sea,
>>Europe is the less.
>>As well as if a promontory were.
>>As well as if a manor of thy friend's
>>Or of thine own were:
>>Any man's death diminishes me,
>>Because I am involved in mankind,
>>And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
>>It tolls for thee.
>
>
>Or William Henley:
>
>Out of the night that covers me,
> Black as the pit from pole to pole,
> I thank whatever gods may be
> For my unconquerable soul.
>
>In the fell clutch of circumstance
> I have not winced nor cried aloud.
> Under the bludgeonings of chance
> My head is bloody, but unbowed.
>
>Beyond this place of wrath and tears
> Looms but the horror of the shade,
> And yet the menace of the years
> Finds and shall find me unafraid.
>
>It matters not how strait the gate,
> How charged with punishments the scroll,
> I am the master of my fate:
> I am the captain of my soul.

Wow. You keep surprising me.