These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

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.

You will never know how courageous you are until you are willing to leave your comfort zone to leap into the unknown.

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

How strong sometimes is weakness!

Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.

There are too many people writing about whether they just farted or not.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.