Robert Poortinga

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences—and infer the motivation.”
― Carl Jung

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives… Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.”
― John Ruskin

“Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures”
― John Ruskin