Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

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.

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

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

Because we don't really sparkle.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.