Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

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.

Always be thankful for what you had, what you have, and what you will have in the future.

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.

But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.

A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.

I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now.

Avoid running at all times.

Let us also go, that we might die with him

I am inspired by the success of those that came to LA around the time that I started.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.