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.

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.

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

If we can become still and open-minded we might all feel that unseen hand on our shoulder, letting us know we are not alone.

I just want a friend who “gets” me and then wants to keep me—flaws and all.

Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.