“True, but irrelevant.”

Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.

I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You’re out in the open field. You’re actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it’s easy to criticize something you can understand.

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what’s happening to write.

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.

When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.