I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.