We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo… excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. – Thomas J. Peters
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. – Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. – ThÃch Nhất Hạnh
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. – Lyndon B. Johnson
You cant write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. Im very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. – Geraldine Brooks
You know, be able to do something great in your life, youre gonna have to realize your failures. Youre gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it. – Dave Chappelle