People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.