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The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.