Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Freedom is never free.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.