“So much of who we are is where we have been.”

“We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.”

“How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?”

“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.”

“[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.”

“God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been”