I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

Good teaching comes from good people.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

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

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

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.

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?