Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.

If you want to make a mark you have to take a risk.

Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

when you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

You are what your record says you are.

I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.