Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'

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 full length of a frog doesn't have to be seen when it's dead. It has to be seen when it jumps. Aim for greater heights always.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?