We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture and evaluate and assess and criticize mercilessly.