Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

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.