Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.

The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.