“We must prepare students for a future we can neither describe nor predict.”

“I think how there are fault lines in men as old and uncharted as the earth itself. Made known just before the ground starts separating and by then it's too late.”

“It makes sense that your response to a bad break-up line would be to set someone on fire," I responded. "Fire is magical to us because it embodies the passage of time. We can never grasp time because it is invisible, unreachable and continually slipping from our grasp. Do we live in the present? How can we? The present is infinitesimally small. It can't contain human action. We teeter on the brink between our assumed future...where we will be in moments to come...and our memory of the past...where we think we just were. The present doesn't exist in a comprehensible way. Similarly, fire is something we can neither grasp nor touch, yet it has a clear effect...the decay and collapse of life, the acceleration of entropy. Thus when we stand mesmerized by fire, we are actually mesmerized by our own mortality.”

“And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.”

“[Christ] will come again. But we must look to Scripture, not human thought, for our guide to preparing.”

“We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.”

“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.”