Cornelia Funke, Best-selling author

I am a wanderer, and I know how great it is to be made felt welcome. Having the opportunity to bring a little of everything that makes up your own culture to the country you choose as your home – and to see how something foreign becomes familiar and of value. And being continuously reminded through diversity that we all surely carry genes in us from all corners of the world. There is so much to learn. I hope that one day we all can learn from one another without giving it a second thought.