Quotes about Diversity

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

God can appreciate our differences and still create unity. It is like a conductor who can orchestrate extremely different instruments into producing a harmonious, unified sound. Together we produce a sound of harmony that expresses the multifaceted character of God.

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

Italian football's different to Spanish and German, but it's only different and not inferior.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.

I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.

I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.