"It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists."

-- Paul Halmos

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“Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.”
“Do your kids a favor: Love your spouse.”
“Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.”
“Religions change; beer and wine remain.”

Source : Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”
“I focus on faculty, as opposed to facilities, budgets, endowments or students. I do so because I believe, based on many decades of work as a teacher, a scholar and an administrator, that the quality of the faculty determines the quality of the university. Everything else flows from the quality of the faculty. If the faculty are good, you will attract good students and you will have alumni who will raise funds for you.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.”
“A director once told me, "You need to act like you're on mute and speak as though the viewer is in the other room doing the dishes." You become a part of the house. We can make fun of telenovelas, but not to the point where we're mocking them.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows”

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