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 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

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

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?

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

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