When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the bus. And how you handle that, how you respond to that, how you deal with that is a lesson to the people you are on the bus with.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.

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

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.