You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do your art, you're actually making yourself vulnerable. You yourself are not God's gift to truth. You have to hazard yourself in their world, especially because you're inviting people to do the same. It's all about become visible, becoming incarnate, becoming here and now and yet with our eyes on a future horizon; holding the conversation you were meant to hold.

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.