A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

Without money the flute of life is also heard unturned.

Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally She is the darling of my heart And lives in our alley.

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'