At a developmental course with Werner Erhard (the founder of Erhard Seminars Training [est] and Landmark Education [the Forum, Curriculum for Living] was quoted as saying:

We are people to whom much is given.
We are able, healthy, successful people,
blessed with privilege, opportunity,
and intelligence.
For ourselves and for our children,
the future looks like a promise.

Against this background of optimism,
our age, if it is to deliver on its promise,
will need people deeply committed to
the truth, to what works, to what is real.
This age demands of us the courage,
the dignity, and the integrity to
generate behavior beyond what is
merely strategic, beyond what,
according to the standards of the
opinion makers of the day
is "wise and reasonable."

Our age, if it is to deliver on its promise,
needs people capable of real heroism -
not the kind of heroism which ends up
in glory - but the kind which ends up
bringing out and making available the
truth, what works, what is honest and real.

Our age, if it is to deliver on its promise,
needs people who can reach beyond
that which is already determined,
that which is already predictable,
that which can already be expected,
and take the lead in creating new possibility.

The demands of this age are
extraordinary: to meet them,
extraordinary men and women
are required. There is no reason,
no motivation, no "reward"
for which these people
- and you and I - will make this
age succeed. There is just our humanity
- and the stand that we are.
"Of those to whom much is given,
much is required."*

- Werner Erhard

*Luke 12:48, which reads in full...

"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."

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