“and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he bore for her and their children”

“ Lloyd felt as though he had just lost the woman he loved more than everyone else on earth”

“now he sensed that she was saying goodbye to him”

“There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.”

“Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.”

“Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.”

“The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry lifetime after lifetime.”