"In other parts of the world where I go, people are worried about, Jeez, you know, I really wanted to buy my kids shoes this year."

“The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.”

Source : John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.11, Harvard Business Press

“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.”

Source : Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“We have to base architecture on the environment.”

Source : "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

“Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.”

Source : Sir Walter Scott (1857). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.303

“We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.”

“I think that smoking is a very good thing to do - it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable thing. But like much else that the Indians gave us, we abused the privilege. And so, in my case I must simply stop. I'm too old to smoke. But I do believe that nicotine provides a great creative thrust.”

“We are not going to finance elections when we need to fight to win back occupied territory.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.”