Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.