Alice Walker: “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

Anais Nin: “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”

Andy Warhol: “They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

Anne Frank: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

Eleanor Roosevelt: “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

Epictetus: “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt: “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”