I want a dime, if you can spare a dime. I’ll go along my way peacefully –– if you can’t I’ll go along my way peacefully –– ya can’t win –– ya can’t lose –– and between here and Bismark, Idaho I got nothin’ but lost and lost and lost everything I had.

––Jack Kerouac

Not only should you believe in what you are doing, but you should know what you are doing.

––Mason Williams

There is something in the pang of change, / More than the heart can hear, / Unhappiness remembering happiness.

––Euripides

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

––anonymous

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

 ––Oscar Wilde

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

––Rose Macaulay

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.”

––Sydney Harris

 

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

––Louis Brandeis

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

––George Bernard Shaw

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of continent, a part of the main.

––John Donne

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

––Margaret Atwood

Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters.

––Maya Angelou

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

––Marie Curie