Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.

Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.

A brotherhood of venerable trees.

I'm blessed to be able to do what I do.