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- Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Unto This Last, essay 2 (1862)
- I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
- Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
- Henri Cartier Bresson
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
- Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
- Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005), Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 1985
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