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.

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.

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.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness

Life evolved from time

Like spilled water, once a girl's reputation is ruined, it will never come back

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

A clock only turns one direction

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be