Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Life is too short so we must generalize.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

Two steps forward...one step back...I've always hated that old cliche too...I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

There is no one way to Happiness. Happiness is the way! It's inside your head FIRST and everyplace else second

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

Thought is the seed of action.