Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

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.

Love is as clear as water from a pitcher.

You have the strength to survive any situation.

The ‘deep pause’ needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a ‘deep pause’ to be deeply wasteful.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

I just love the delusional, hallucinatory qualities of sleep deprivation. I can't get enough of it.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.