The [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.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

I 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.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.