"Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life"

“Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.”

“Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.”

Source : "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain"". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

“The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.”

“Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.”

“Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.”

Source : John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

“It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.”

Source : Peter D. Schiff (2011). “Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse”, p.133, John Wiley & Sons

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.146, Open Road Media

“I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.”