Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all, " she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world."Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

The best revenge is a life well lived.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.

In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination