The world loves talent but pays off on character.

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

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

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.