The souls of men and women make a country great.

Don’t confuse flags for patriots.

You can’t love a symbol and hate what it represents.

For a moment, time stood still; nothing happened; eternity posed all its intricate movement on that one moment.

Tears spilled out of closed eyes and mixed with the tears of the faces pressed against them.

Observing the happiness of others always makes the world make a little more sense all of a sudden, makes suffering a little more bearable, makes grief a little less suffocating.

From the green valleys of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon , were a village of men and women set their faces against the horror and showed that, armed with the Spirit, the noblest hearts are always capable of overcoming and that there shadows of evil will finally be dispelled until light invades everything once more — for a new generation to believe it can change the world, or at least try.

This book is just that: the capacity we have as human beings to transform the world in each generation, when the balances are zeroed out and, for better or worse, everything begins again.

Children of the Stars is a tribute to the power of everyday men and women to change reality.