Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

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.

Rise, Luthiel, in the name of love you came and in the name of love I crown you!

What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.

Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.

Her [Sarah Palin] son went to Iraq under George W. Bush, but it gives us a chance to explain what post-traumatic stress disorder is.

They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective