Passion is born of vague hopes.

It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

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

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.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.