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.

Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

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.

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

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

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.