Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

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.

Doubt breeds doubt.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

No one can move without some leadership.

I love to write. It's my first love.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.

Gwen?" "Yes." "You know why we have to be together, don't you?" "..." "I'm your selkie.