1. Be a nice person or you will surely come back in your next life as a donkey in Morocco or Mali.
2. People in vastly different cultures are more alike than different.
3. Human beings gravitate towards the familiar; therefore, it is necessary to be patient and understanding with that which is different.
4. If you repress something, you will make it stronger.
5. Having to pay to pee is wrong.
6. Soap operas all over the world consisently have terrible acting.
7. Every day, be grateful. You are more blessed than you know.
8. The simple, random fact of where a person is born and who their parents are has a profound effect on the course of their life. Do not take this for granted.
9. Be warm and gentle whenever possible but without letting others take advantage of it.
10. In order to grow, you must leave your safety net. Challenge yourself to step into the lives and shoes of others.
