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

The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are….

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..

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

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it..

People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence betwee….

I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act..

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

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted rol….

Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea tha….

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 th….

I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful si….

Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift..

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who….

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds..

Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being ….

Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are no….

The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our studen….

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 ….

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 ….

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!.