Volunteering abroad is a powerful force for change but only if you choose the right project.

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.