Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.

Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.

When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.

Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.

Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

People get intimidated because they think I have everything, but it's just not true.

As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.