History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

My mother... She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.