Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

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

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point that learning is everything.

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.