I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.

I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone

I didn't feel very lucky. Why me, I kept asking myself. Why had this happened to me?

My brain refused to move past the pain, as if it had been filled to the max and needed to be emptied.

I thought doctors were supposed to make you better not worse!

I was trying to work out who I was.

Now and then it is okay to get lost to find yourself in a new way.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.

Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

I've realized skinny isn't necessarily attractive. Guys like girls with curves.

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.