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

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.

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

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

The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you ...

Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat

Some things come with their own punishments.

That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

I would never sign up to film my personal life.

Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.

The important questions focus on what matters most-Heavenly Father's plan and the Savior's Atonement.

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.