“The moment we turn from a bad habit that is destroying us, and by our own character resolve and determine to live better, the moment we conquer some weakness in ourselves or overcome a prejudice or overcome hatred, or overcome some form of inadequacy in our own nature, at such moments we experience the beginning of our maturity. That is the time we come of age.”

– Manly P. Hall, The Moment of Self-Consciousness, 1971, p.16