Poignant words from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Men (humans) hate each other because they fear each other, 
and they fear each other because they don't know each other, 
and they don't know each other because they are often separated from each other."

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Understanding Others

"Without mutual knowledge there can be no mutual understanding; without understanding, there can be no trust and respect; without trust, there can be no peace, only the danger of conflict. This means we have to be willing and able to familiarize ourselves with the way people of other cultures think and perceive the world around them, but without losing our own standpoint in the process. 

- Roman Herzog, Former President of Germany

"Diversity is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do. And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that will protect us all. We are ALL meant to be here TOGETHER. (emphasis mine)."

- William M. Chase, 'The Language of Action'

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

The gift of Music :)

"Music speaks what cannot be expressed,
soothes the mind and gives it rest,
heals the heart and makes it whole,
flows from heaven to the soul."

-Unknown