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.

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.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Passion is born of vague hopes.

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

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

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.