Never throw away the old at the sight of the new.

Zimbabwean proverb

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Unless you have dialogue, unless you open the walls of dialogue, you can never reach to change people’s opinion.

Harvey Milk

The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be alright. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us’es, the us’es will give up.

Harvey Milk

And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five