Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.

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.

As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feetinto the night’s velvet slippersI settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag, of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.

I like reading. I just hate school.

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?" "You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.

This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.