The early Indo-Aryans could no more have thought in modern terms of the race prejudice than they could have invented the airplane.

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

I believe the old way of doing business is dying, and the sooner it's dead and buried the better off we all will be.

Ways to combat stress, such as playing golf before a conference call or taking a break on the beach during inventory, are essential.

But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.