You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

Hideki Tojo

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

Dirk Bogarde

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Elie Wiesel

Blame is the creed of the disempowered.

Steve Maraboli

Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.

Mary Ann Allison

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Arthur Erickson

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Socrates

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.

John Podhoretz

Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.

Emma Donoghue

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White