I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.

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

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

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.

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.

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.

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