Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939) - Eleanor Roosevelt

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

The truth is, of course, that there is a danger of being unaware of those persons and things nearest and most accustomed to us. It is not necessarily true that familiarity breeds contempt, but it does tend to make the familiar something that is taken for granted.