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

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 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.

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

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

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