“ You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. Tracy Kidder
“ Children get dealt grossly unequal hands, but that is all the more reason to treat them equally in school, Chris thought. I think the cruelest form of prejudice is... if I ever said, 'Clarence is poor… Tracy Kidder
“ Dokte Paul works with both hands — that is, both with science and with the magic necessary to remove ensorcellments. Tracy Kidder
“ To an outsider, building a school before there was a medical clinic, or someone to deal with the problems of hunger and homelessness, was illogical, but Farmer and Lafontant understood that the school… Tracy Kidder
“ Montaigne blessed the form when he said, If I knew my own mind, I would not make essays. I would make decisions. Tracy Kidder
“ Everything is quantified, he said. Whether it’s the technology or the way people use it, it has an insidious ability to reduce things to less than human dimensions. Tracy Kidder
“ I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I… Tracy Kidder
“ Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from… Tracy Kidder
“ Central imperative of liberation theology—to provide a preferential option for the poor—seemed like a worthy life’s goal to him. Of course, one could pursue it almost anywhere, but clearly the doctrin… Tracy Kidder
“ We can spend sixty-eight thousand dollars per TB patient in New York City, but if you start giving watches or radios to patients here, suddenly the international health community jumps on you for crea… Tracy Kidder
“ The view reminded of the Haitain proverb Beyond mountains there are mountains which meant that when you'd solved one problem, you couldn't rest because you had to go on and solve the next. Tracy Kidder
“ One time I listened to Farmer give a talk on HIV to a class at the Harvard School of Public Health, and in the midst of reciting data, he mentioned the Haitian phrase looking for life, destroying life… Tracy Kidder
“ I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after your… Tracy Kidder
