If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

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.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

True silence is the speech of lovers.

Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.