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- 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
- Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
- You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
- Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
- It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )
- The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 08-24-04
- Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
- 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
- Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.
- Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
- 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
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