It was frustrating for them that first year. The hard part was assimilation and learning the [American] ways.

We need humor badly. I think in a democracy we have the blessing of being able to laugh at our government. Of all our countless blessings, surely none is more precious than our freedom to laugh.

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.

They're not just working on a house. They are learning something that they need in life in almost everything they do.

'Reluctantly Healthy' is so completely different than what I do for a living. It's really what I wanted it to be, which is learning to be healthy.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.