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 Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. – 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
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. – Tracy Kidder
Giving birth was the most amazing thing Ive ever done. Id been living in a Third World country, and I said, Im going to just squat behind a tree. I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didnt want a sterile hospital room. I didnt want doctors. I had a midwife. – Carolyn Murphy