I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism