we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.

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.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world

When you judge others you reveal your inability to see them through God's eyes.

Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace.

Few men can afford to be angry.

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.