Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

If there is any delay in that feedback loop between thinking of something and seeing it and building on it, then there is this whole world of ideas which will never be.

Bret Victor

The better you look, the more you see.

Bret Easton Ellis

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

Paulo Coelho

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Les Brown

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Henry David Thoreau

To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpertrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.

Flora Jessop

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

Ben Affleck

These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.

Kevin Rudd

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Harry S Truman

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius