Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

Where there are people, there is injustice, and that is not God’s design. It may not be our fault, but it is our fight. Let us do our part by holding up our corners.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

Environment is stronger than will.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .