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

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.

What do you do for ecstasy?

Leadership is about movement and growth.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a workaholic is a label for an unproductive person.

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.