When you hate, the only person who suffers is you because most of the people you hate don’t know it and the rest don’t care. Medgar Evers

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. Toni Morrison

Just don’t give up what you are trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

Tolstoy on poverty in Moscow: I sit on a man’s back chocking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means-except by getting off his back.