And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.

Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.

Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface.

Once they know they've got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all world to see. And you become less than it. You become something disgusting.

The truth begins where trust ends.

i always like to touch base with men who i can relate to.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

To work is to feel alive.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.