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

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.

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.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

Canada is a big part of my life.

..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

Ideas do not exist separately from language.

The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.

I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.