Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

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.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

People forget what they want to forget.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.