Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.

A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.

Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.

I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.

It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.

To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make it to safety.

It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.

The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me.

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop.

Home.” This was my mantra, my four-letter savior.

Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.

Only the dead, can speak about their world.

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

I love to dance.I've been told I'm actually really good.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.