A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.

Are we savages or what?