(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

I was raised to face any challenge.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.

Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed.

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!