Deedee Karabetsos

“Alexander Rostov was neither scientist nor sage; but at the age of sixty-four he was wise enough to know that life does not proceed by leaps and bounds. It unfolds. At any given moment, it is the manifestation of a thousand transitions. Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate and our opinions evolve--if not glacially, then at least gradually. Such that the events of an average day are as likely to transform who we are as a pinch of pepper is to transform a stew.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi

“What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.”
― Lucille Clifton

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
― Cornel West