Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

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.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

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