"We run from safety of family to the strangers of the playground.
Run from the safety of friends next door into the cauldron of school.
From the safety of listening, in class, to the terror of delivering our own oral report...
From the simple use of English into the umlaut deeps of German.
From the warmth of dependence into the ice of on-our-own...

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true."

Richard Bach
Running from Safety, 1994