Power is the capacity to generate 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.

To doubt is to deny yourself of your own existence.

If you fear God, always put Him first, and seek His will, He will give you the desires of your heart

I'm a pusher dealing hope, at the intersection of Desire and Despair.

How inappropriate, ’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she’s going to do all night?

Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

I've learned to really just say no. If I don't want to do something, I won't do it. There's nothing that can make me do anything.

Take it from me, its hip to be square.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.