The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

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

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.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.