There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

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.

A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

Americans don't win. Our country doesn't win. We don't win at trade. We don't win. We can't beat ISIS.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.

Im not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

People care about people who care about themselves.

Don't worry about what you can't control.

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.