Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

All great things have small beginnings.

The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking.

The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

Travel with your thoughts to great land.

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

As you think, so shall you become.

I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.