Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.