The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

Are we being good ancestors?