Many of us would like the world to change, but we don't want to endure the trouble of helping make it happen.

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.

We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.

Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.

People have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness.

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.

Shatter your fears and you will shatter records.

Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Despair is a cruel companion. It robs you of everything

Sometimes I think to myself, "I wonder if Meryl Streep is ever like, 'Oh gosh, everyone thinks I'm so perfect! I wish that someone would give me a note.'"

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

Bio-technology is the science of the future.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it