After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

C.S. Lewis

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Alan Kay

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Natalie Goldberg

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

William Shakespeare

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Barack Obama

She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

Leo Tolstoy

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it

Samuel Johnson