Just this once, ’ he says almost more to himself than to me. ‘Just one moment.’ Then he leans down and kisses me.

If I’m super lucky, I might be able to fight him off and maybe even the warrior after him, but it’s not a long-term survival strategy. By long-term, I mean the next ten minutes.We’re screwed.

But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from.

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth

The game honors toughness

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.