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- In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,' Thoughts and Meditations, 1960
- I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
- To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), interview with Barbara Walters on ABC-TV, March 18, 1987
- It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 'Economy,' Walden, 1854
- Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965), television broadcast, December 31, 1955
- Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
- Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
- And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
- Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
- Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
- We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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