... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.