Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

King Hussein

Thus we feed on genius, and refresh ourselves from too much conversation with our mates, and exult in the depth of nature in that direction in which he leads us. What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies! Every mother wishes one son a genius, though all the rest should be mediocre. But a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man. His attractions warp us from our place. We have become underlings and intellectual suicides. Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;- other great men, new qualities, counterweights and checks on each other. We cloy of the honey of each peculiar greatness. Every hero becomes a bore at last. Perhaps Voltaire was not bad-hearted, yet he said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again. They cry up the virtues of George Washington,- Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation. But it is human nature's indispensable defense. The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the state depends on the see-saw.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complet

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Ivan Chermayeff

Opposition is true friendship.

William Blake

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

Rodney Dangerfield

There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Victor Hugo

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Kofi Annan

I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.

Jennifer Garner

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Edward Everett Hale

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

Alan Cox

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

John C. Maxwell