It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
“Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.”
“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”