All social change begins with a conversation.

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.

It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about

I learned it was better to tiptoe through life and arrive at death's door safely.

I believe we have this idea that bad things ought to be prevented from happening.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

And that's when you learned, your top fund-raiser was a murder suspect.