Maddie Smith

“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.”
― Michael S. Sorensen, I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships

“Why do we continue to act like the farmer who, upon learning that his dog is lying on a pile of hay meant for cattle to eat and baring his teeth when the cows come near, chooses to drop their rations, feeding them with what scraps he can catch from the edge of the pile? Why don't we just move the dog?”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning