Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

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.

I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

You can disagree with an idea without attacking the person who shared it.

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being.

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Trudeau's not somebody's who's going to make strange faces if Trump says something rude. Trudeau's very aware of his personal image.