Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.

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.

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

...the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.

Love is beautiful, A beautiful deception. One falls in it To deceive the other

Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

When you associate with scum, you become scum.

If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.

My childhood was appalling.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.