Margaret Mead

"The way your employees feel is exactly the way your customers feel. And if your employees don't feel valued, neither will your customers."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"We are living through a period of nervous crisis."

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."

"Our children should learn that difference among people is normal and beautiful."

"One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it has always been afraid of women."

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

"If we are to achieve a richer culture, we must weave new patterns in the fabric of society."

"Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear can tend to produce love."

"The young mind is not yet ready to take all knowledge into itself, as the adult mind claims it can do."

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off."

"The knowledge that the average American teenager fairly aches with boredom is well known wherever you go."

"I learned to value my own needs and those of others equally."

"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful thing has come to an end and not because you were deprived of it, you have missed some of life's nobility."

"In its evolution, humanity has always drawn new resources of spirituality from the universe."

"The mind is not sex-typed."

"For small errand use small people."

"It may be necessary to face defeat to know how to fight."

"I have a respect for people with genuine faith."

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

"The development of imagination leaves its mark on all intellectual work."

"The imposition of selves where there has been previously only flowing interchange is the original action."

"It is better to be a living dog than a dead lion."

"Old age is no place for sissies."

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."