You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
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.
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.
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
Stop looking all over the place for "the answers" - whatever they are - and start looking for the questions - the inquiries which are most important in your life, and give them answers. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it.
It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked. . . and comedians are always talking about politics.