Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

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.

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.