Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

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.

Death is harder on those who are left behind.

It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.

I make positive choices so I can be happy.

By becoming a writer I realized that I will live forever.” – Manos Filippou, Author

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

I've been the underdog in my life since I was a kid.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.