There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

I've got mates who have got married through meeting on Internet dating sites, so it really can work out - even if sometimes it does go disastrously wrong.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

I don't believe in happy endings.

Yeah, I am a character actor.

I think there's a prototype we're all looking for, whether it's Brett Favre or Troy Aikman. And everyone's got that picture in their mind of the prototype at the position.

The more independent you are of him, the more interested he will be.