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

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

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

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.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

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

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?