The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.
John W. GardnerThe creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
John W. GardnerThe [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight for their place in the sun, and critics of both liberal conservative persuasion.
John W. GardnerI think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.
John W. Gardner