among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

- Tracy Kidder

The only real nation is humanity

- Tracy Kidder

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist,…

- Tracy Kidder

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

How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translat…

- Tracy Kidder

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world …

- Tracy Kidder

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence …

- 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 g…

- Tracy Kidder

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of…

- Tracy Kidder