“The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?” Bryan Stevenson

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain I just got home from a two week trip to France and Spain, part of which was on a river boat on the Rhône.  The more I see of the rest of the world, the less likely I am to think that my own…

“Your legacy, in some ways, is what you love and what you’ve asked other people to love alongside you.” ​ – Hanif Abdurraoqib

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” ​ – Oprah Winfrey

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. -Wendell…

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you,” – 14th-century Persian Sufi poet, Hafiz

“America’s diversity offers so much richness and opportunity. Take a chance, won’t you? Knock down the fences that divide. Tear apart the walls that imprison. Reach out, freedom lies just on the other side.” ​ – Thurgood Marshall

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within…

“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you’re wasting your time on this Earth.” ~Roberto Clemente.

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” -Mark Twain Thanks again to Mark Twain, whose quips and wisdom we’re enjoying this summer.