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.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.