Francis Parkman

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.