One who is not interested in literature, music and arts is veritably an animal without tail or horns. Other animals are indeed fortunate, that he lives without eating grass.
—Subhashita Manjari (Sanskrit Anthology of Proverbs)
What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.
—Owen D. Young (American Businessman)
True patriotism for a man is his childhood.
—Lisandro Chavez Alfaro (Nicaraguan Author)
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
—Elliot Richardson (American Statesman)
Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.
—Tony Campolo (American Sociologist)
‘As a matter of fact’ is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn’t.
—Laurence J. Peter (American Author)
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
—John Donne (English Poet, Cleric)
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
—Quincy Jones (American Record Producer)
Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.
—Robert E. Wood (American Business Executive)
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
—William Blake (English Poet)
Mediocrity is fine if you accept it.
—David Mitchell (British Comedian)
Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
—Gregory Bateson (British Anthropologist)