What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

You are not weak. People like us, we're brave. We're the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting.

Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth.

Talent is a word lazy people use to explain why they can’t do things.

Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils.

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.