When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

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.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is.

Well, if my crime is love, then I am indeed guilty

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

My faith graduated to a place called trust, that I know ultimately - ultimately, that God has good things for me.