"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others."

“Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?”

“My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.”

“There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,”

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.”

“Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.”

Source : Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.37, Wesleyan University Press

“It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.”

“People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.”

Source : Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt