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

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

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

When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency – the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.

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

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.