We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

She was so ugly that her face could stop a sundial.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]