Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.