"American public should understand what happened with adoption and why, so that our government can be held accountable moving forward, and we can know how to engage in ethical adoptions, know how to make it something good for everyone involved, not exploitative."

“Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.”

“We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful exchange of ideas in ways that don't presuppose that all the right answers are on our own side. Still, we should all have moral bottom lines. Once genocide or torture begins the priority shifts from understanding to stopping it. One hope I have for the global conversation as instantiated in human rights treaties is that we are slowly coming to consensus on certain moral baselines.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

“Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.”

“Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career”

“The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.”

“I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.”

“If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.”

“Without real exchange, you can’t create knowledge.”

Source : "The Practical Wisdom of Ikujiro Nonaka" by Sally Helgesen, www.strategy-business.com. November 25, 2008.