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- What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
- The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
- If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- "Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005), People and Performance
- Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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