All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

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.

Sometimes witchraft is when the heart is full of hate that it consumes your mind not appreciate good things that are done by other people.

Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question.

Life during the wedding day can be so simple, but life after the wedding day can be THE HARDEST.

Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town.