I long, as does every human being,
to be at home wherever I find myself.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Being exposed to the existence of other languages increases the perception that the world is populated by people who not only speak differently from oneself but whose cultures and philosophies are other than one's own. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A societies needs determines their ethics

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

...love costs all we are
and will ever be
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

Still I rise. . . .

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.