The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

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

My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.

We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it. But to be in a real-life situation, a work camp or a trip or some other activity with young people where real forgiveness needs to happen, that's a different situation altogether. And that is where the deepest learning will occur.

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

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