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

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

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