Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

The caterpillar they despise today is the butterfly they praise tomorrow.

He's completely complicated. And lost. And frustrating. But we do something for each other. . . . We fit. We need each other.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Life isn't all that sad. I'm a happy person.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

I see all of them. All the colors.

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.