Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

Germany and other countries have protested to the U.S. We have to make it clear again and again that millions of jobs in the U.S. depend on trade with the EU.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

Maybe I really could be one of the greatest of all time. Who doesn't want to be a legend, right?

Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.