We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

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.

No stone was left unturned in the unearthing of musical masterpieces."About Egg, Book 1 "Making it

Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

To determine if you're human. Be silent.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.