Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

organization is the religion of the single parent.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.