All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.