Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

Though they only take a second to say, thank yous leave a warm feeling behind that can last for hours.

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day

Is there anything more important than a child?

The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S.W.T), and to guide society in the right path with all the power they have.

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.