Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.