the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

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.

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.

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

Time melts away in every passing moment.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.

Love leads us to ourselves - this is the mystery of love.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.