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

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.

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards