"people are all there is to an organization"

“I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special.”

“Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.”

“Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.”

“An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.”

“I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.”

“Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.”

Source : "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art" by Edward Helmore, Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

“At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.”

“The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.”

Source : Charles Taze Russell (1913). “Studies in the Scriptures”