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.

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

[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.

A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

A ‘biomass’ man repeats what he sees

Entrepreneurs are innovators, visionaries—generators of new ideas turning into coinage

Healing is the gateway to peace and peace is the path to passion and purpose.

It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.

Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.