“Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.”

“You have to taste a culture to understand it.”

“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”

“The Present is where the Past shakes hands with the Future.”

“Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.”

“Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.”

“The dark man is ubiquitous. People from all times and in all places have recorded their experiences of him in stories, poems, paintings, songs, stone, dance, crafts and prayers. Saint or sinner, scientist or theologian, agnostic or true believer, it makes little difference as the dark man has walked beside us since the very beginning and he will stay with us until the end. He is so intrinsic to the human experience that everyone has at least one dark man story to tell...”