I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.

Time heals even the deepest wounds.

I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.

It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it.

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

Reconciliation means - in victory, I win and you're wrong, and then you lose.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.