“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”– Eleanor Roosevelt               “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy            “A second basic fact that characterizes non-violence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.         “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.” – Abraham Lincoln         “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” – Joe Ancis         “Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” – Erica Jong         “The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” – Albert Camus         “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” – Mohandas Gandhi         “The only way to have friends is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson         “Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.” – Richard M. Nixon         “A true friend stabs you in the front” – Oscar Wilde         “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln         “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln         “Hell is not other people; it is yourself.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein         “The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.” – George Orwell         “There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one’s fellow man.” – Groucho Marx         “We are all murderers and prostitutes -- no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature one takes oneself to be.” – R. D. Laing         “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny         “Do not be hastily upset, for anger lingers in the bosom of fools.” – Ecclesiastes, 7:9         “He is not strong and powerful, who throws people down, but he is strong who withholds himself from anger.” – Mohammed         “Anger is the wind that blows out the lamp of the mind.” – Robert Ingersoll         “A soft word turns away wrath.” – King Solomon         “A hot-tempered person cannot teach.” – Ethics of the Fathers, 2:5         “If people find fault with you and try to put you into a bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don’t harbor any dislike, don’t enter into any contests, and don’t get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never heard or saw it.” – Zen Master Yuanwu         “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” – Source Unknown         “Love criticism. It will bring you to your highest level.” – Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson         “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall         “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr.         “If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.”?– Noam Chomsky         “The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.” -?Eleanor Holmes Norton         “If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”?– Somerset Maugham         “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” –?Benjamin Franklin         “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”?– William O. Douglas         “When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt         “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington         “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.” - Malcolm X         “Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.” - Patricia Sampson         “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” - Thomas Jefferson         “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” - William James         “A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg         “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Helen Keller         “Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.” - Joan Didion         “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” - Elbert Hubbard         “One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.” - Michael J. Fox         “If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” - Moshe Dayan         “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde         “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky         “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” - Bertrand Russell         “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” - Edmund Burke         “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” - Mahatma Gandhi         “If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.” - Lois McMaster Bujold         “We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.” - Charles Caleb Colton         “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.” - Hermann Hesse         “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle         “Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.” – Arcesilaus         “The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.” – Cicero         “The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.” - Lao-tzu         “To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.” - Fritz Kunkel         “No moral system can rest solely on authority.” - A. J. Ayer         “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein         “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi         “In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.” - Sir Francis Bacon