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.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

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

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

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.

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