I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

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.

Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy, ” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.

A person who loves himself can never feel himself completely lonely!

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.