"when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well."

“Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.”

“To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.”

Source : Don Tapscott (2014). “The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”, p.252, McGraw Hill Professional

“In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.”

“The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.”

“Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.”

“You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.”

“If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.”

“Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.”

Source : Jan Gehl (2013). “Cities for People”, p.6, Island Press