If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

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

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.