A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

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.

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.

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

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.

...everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Some people dream of SUCCESS while other wake up and work hard at it.

When you love someone, it's never over, ' Dr. Carruthers replied gently. 'You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

As I was saying before I was interrupted ... I believe the last thing I said was 'There must be a better way to make a living than this.' Well, I've looked - and there isn't.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.