“The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin -nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.”

“Life is war.”

“It's you and the students against ignorance.”

“You can't sell people a new idea backed only by your authority. You have to have respect for the lives the people have led to this point and begin with them there; their experiences have led them to their assumptions and conceptions. As you identify and legitimate those experiences, you can help people identify their own primary needs in society. Then they can begin to imagine other people as having parallel needs.”

“To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.”

“Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.”

“To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.”