"Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why."

“I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.”

Source : "Online Extra: Q&A with Canon's Fujio Mitarai". Interview with Irene M. Kunii, www.bloomberg.com. February 11, 2002.

“If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.”

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”

“I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.”

“Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'”

“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”

“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

“Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.”