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

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.

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.

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

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.

The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife

I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

Mine. You're mine, Sin. No one else will ever touch you, do you understand? You belong to me. You'll bond with me. ~Con

In recent years, we've made historic investments in NATO, increased America's presence in Europe.

You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five.

I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics