If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

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.

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

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.

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

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.