Quotes

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“Being human is difficult. Becoming human is a lifelong process. To be truly human is a gift.”

— Abraham Heschel

“This capacity to shape a vision of what can be achieved, and to share the vision with others so that it becomes their own, is one of the most important elements of leadership.”

— Professor David Pennington, Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne 1988-1995

“Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.”

— Richard Iannelli

“If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the US does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.”

— Robert Jackson, US Prosecutor at Nuremberg, 1946

“I have been struck again and again by how important measuring is to improving the human condition.”

— Bill Gates makes the case for using a tool of business to improve the health and welfare of more of the world’s people.

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”

— Steve Irwin

“But the artist persists because they have the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.”

— Anais Nin

“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Character is doing the right thing when no-one is watching.”

— J.C. Watt

“We must never cease our exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to return to the place where we first began and to truly know that place for the first time.”

— T.S. Eliot
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