Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

-Marya Mannes

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

-Roosevelt, Eleanor

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

-Johann von Goethe

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

-Jerry Gillies