Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

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 think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.

I believe Raghuram Rajan's patriotism is no less than any of ours. As much as I know Raghuram Rajan, whatever post he holds, wherever he is, he is someone who will continue to serve the country.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.