"The best time to give feedback to strong people is when they're feeling weak, and to weak people when they're feeling strong."

“Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.”

“I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.”

“Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.”

“The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.”

“No matter what kind of day I've had at school, I always look forward to golf.”

“Nothing could be more personal than a tape.”

“The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there.”

“Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.”

Source : Frances Fox Piven (2012). “Lessons for Our Struggle”, p.12, Haymarket Books