How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

Don’t waste your youthful and active days on employment

Every King, like the river, is evident by his currents

You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

He sits beside the ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted against Jeff Session's nomination in that committee in 1986.

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.

Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true.