There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.

Geography is destiny.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.