If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

Look up and hook up to a life of significance and don’t look down on yourself.

Making the attempt is what matters most.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, 'We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.' This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.

It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

You don't automatically sprout angel wings when you get to the other side - you grow them here.