Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

There must be a mirror to show the soul to itself before the soul can begin to gather its courage.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

What do you do for ecstasy?

Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that.

People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

Miracles do happen in every human life.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.