It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

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.

It's not a homeless life for me, It's just that I'm home lessThan others like to be.

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

I want to put some effort into a bunch of different types of videos. I don't think I'm gonna do 'Man On The Street' messing with people, I don't think I'm gonna do over-the-top wacky comedy.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

Leggings killed velour sweat suits! I used to only wear them until leggings came along.

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.