"As we transcend our past in the things we do, we also become who we can be. Thus creativity is those attitudes by which we fulfil ourselves."

“Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.”

“Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.”

“There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me”

“To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”

“Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body”

Source : Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.3, Courier Corporation

“The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.”

“I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.”

“The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about them, but we make them. A lot of people won't make a bold bet. A bold bet doesn't assure you of winning, but if you make no bold bets you can't continue to succeed. Our industry doesn't allow you to rest on your laurels forever. I mean, you can milk any great idea. Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.”