I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

All that we are and will be, praise be to God.

Who could trust language?

It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship.

Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.

Anonymity is the fame of the future.

Time management is the key. Although it seems hectic, as long as you manage your time properly you can get everything done.

My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.