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.

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

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

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.

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.

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

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