My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.

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.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.