“Respond; don't react.Listen; don't talk.Think; don't assume.”

“Emerge; don’t cower.Endure; don’t run.Nurture; don’t abandon”

“My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met”

“My great-great grandfather and I were best of friends, although we never met.Fire and shipwreck orphan us – 140 years apart. We escape to imagination to survive our fate. There, midst flights of whimsy we find one another. Companionship quells our loneliness. We create fables and tales, shields against a harsh existence. We must battle animals and humans of prey.Together, he, the future abolitionist-publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction, and I vault from glory-laden adventures to tragedy and then to triumph. I am Raji Singh and this is my story.”

“I tend not to share things unnecessarily with those I despise.”

“So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused.”

“Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished”