To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.

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.

Make no mistake, Marin...a Dragon Guardian may not always be the one sitting upon the throne, but he or she is the protector of the entire realm.

A field of glory is a field for all.

Mouths talk without authority sometimes.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.

The key is to do what you love.

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

It feels weird in our ear holes to hear people worshipping a guy named Ron. We know Rons in our life.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.