Passion is born of vague hopes.

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.

True friends chop the onions and cry together.

Hope says to us constantly "Go on go on " and leads us thus to the grave.

One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

I told my sons to remember to always thank people for compliments.

I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?