A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out - a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they have had an experience. But I also know that an hour later that's faded and you are back to the difficult realities of your own life. And we need to help people know how to go beyond those difficulties to a place where God dwells.

Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.

Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.