Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.