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.

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

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

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

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

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.