Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Anybody who claims that they know where this whole thing is all going is just lying.
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.
When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world.
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.