“Altruism is self interest in

disguise.” David Brooks

“I have seen many Anglo-Americans have an easier time mastering the Spanish language, but with Chicanos [Latinos], there seems to be a barrier, a phobia that is more psychological than people realize. There is a resentment for past treatment. We have scars, and they appear when we talk our mother tongue.” Jose Antonio Burciaga

“And most humans have two contradictory impulses; we love and need one another, yet we crave privacy and autonomy.”Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Cant’s StopTtalking, 2011

“We’re creating complex family relationships where we are related to more people, but obligated to fewer.” Andrew Cherlin

“Having low expectations for yourself is a recipe for feeling good about yourself at any particular moment, but not getting anywhere.” Carol Dweck

“Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.”

Thomas Edison

“Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you do, who see more clearly than you.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

“No es más rico el que más tiene, sino el que menos quiere.”

Enrique E. Figueroa, Ph.D.

“People who know they’ll be ridiculed for telling untruths are more likely to show restraint.” Robert H. Frank

“Now we experience morality more as a choice that we can always change as circumstances call for it. We tend to personalize our ideals. And what you end up with is a nation of ethical free agents.” James Davidson Hunter, The Death of Character

“…the institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical pollution, social polarization, and psychological impotence….” Ivan Illich

“The great majority of people regardless of class, color, or creed, are pendejos.” Armando Jimenez

“I don’t think any advanced democracy is as obsessed with equality of opportunity or as relatively unconcerned with equality of condition.” Jerome Karabel

“People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

John C. Maxwell

“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” Margaret Mead

“Prejudice produced discrimination, that discrimination kept minorities subordinate, and that the vicious cycle was set up when the perception of subordination by subsequent generations reinforced the stereotype of minority unworthiness that had created the situation in the first place.” Gunnar Myrdal

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”

Pablo Picasso

“It [empathy] has become a way to experience the illusion of moral progress without having to do the nasty work of making moral judgments.” Jesse Prinz

“It’s a place [Internet]

where we can be alone together—and this is what gives it power.”

Marcel Proust

“…Cultural repression was always the first, easiest, and most effective means of political control…it’s a subtle move to destroy a society.” Robert Rauschenberg

“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Social psychologists define meaning as a cognitive and emotional assessment of the degree to which we feel our lives have purpose, value, and impact.”

Emily Esfahani Smith & Jennifer L. Aaker, NYT 12-2-‘13