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- Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
- Ramakrishna (1836 - 1886)
- I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.
- Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
- Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...
- Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), On The Road, 1957
- Architecture is one part science, one part craft and two parts art.
- David Rutten
- A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?
- Taeke de Jong, Ways to Study and Research
- Good coaches teach respect for the opposition, love of competition, the value of trying your best, and how to win and lose graciously.
- Brooks Clark
- Players win games, teams win championships.
- Bill Taylor
- I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), talking to Women's Own magazine, October 31 1987
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