I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

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.

Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.

The best way to watch Breaking Bad is in the fetal position, sobbing.

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.