I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

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.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

You are person with a goal

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

Life is a creation, not a discovery.

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

There's always going to be merchants who need to get their message out, but things have gone way too far.

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.