If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

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.

Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

A scoop of pure honey set in a green bowl.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.