There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

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

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

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.

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.

We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.