Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

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

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

Passion is born of vague hopes.

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

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