“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”

“We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.”

“The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence.”

“Living life intensely has a momentum and exhilaration of its own. Thinking about events you have experienced, and developing perspective about them, in some way completes, and finding words to express them gives perspective and bring about a sense of closure.”

“To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective”

“And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.”