I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

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.

Don’t forget the laws of God.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

I'd rather die than go to heaven.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.