We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

A starry night moon looks at you with admiration because in her eyes you are a star.

The greatest magic of life is that all things in life can be changed!

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

Art, like dreams, helps our eyes to see what our hearts already know.

I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win."Merit/Jonah

Without love benevolence becomes egotism.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

You'll have pie in the sky when you die.

The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup?