Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

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

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.

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.