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.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

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.

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

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

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.