"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best night and day to make you everyone else, means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight, and to never stop fighting."
-- e.e. cummings

"Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge."
-- Gordon W. Allport

"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
-- Horace Greeley

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
-- Joe Ancis

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
-- Jonathan Kozol

"Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are."
-- Kurt Cobain

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
-- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
-- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.”
-- Seneca
"Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech."
-- Susan Sontag

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
---Winston Churchill

"Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer."
-- the Dalai Lama