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

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

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.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

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

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Today is a tomorrow that we thought about yesterday. Don't worry about tomorrow. Take care of today because if you take care of today tomorrow will take care of itself.

We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

One golden day redeems a weary year

I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.