" Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. "

— Maya Angelou

" Brothers are God’s way of giving blessings. "

— Unknown

" My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me. "

— Jim Valvano

" When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. "

— Helen Hayes

" The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we are afraid. "

— Muriel Barbery

" Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. "

— Oscar Wilde