Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.

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

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.