The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

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.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.