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

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

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

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives. With different words, they all proclaim the same core message: "Be not afraid." Though the traditions vary widely in the ways they propose to take us beyond fear, all hold out the same hope: we can escape fear's paralysis and enter a state of grace where encounters with otherness will not threaten us but will enrich our work and our lives.

Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.

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.