The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later. – Confucius

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within black community by and large. – Henry Louis Gates

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. – H. G. Wells