“Sometimes you’re trying so hard to get your life together and still it’s not enough, everything is falling apart. What to do, you’re asking. Just keep going through hell for yourself, not for everyone else. Richer with that wisdom, I will build my happiness from nothing. I will rise from the dust. And I will do it on my own. I will live for myself and I won’t look at the others.”

“Because some people see a wall, and assume that’s the end of their journey. Others see it, and decide it’s just the beginning.”

“A ‘civilization’ that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged ‘war crimes’ – acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one’s cause – and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.”

“Prophet,’ he said, ‘Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?”

“I am not that strong but my words are more powerful than I am. My soul is drowning under the weight of my own insecurities,my heart is often broken and my mind desperately struggles for the right words, often failing, but I hope that the words that I write with a vulnerable heartare strong enough to lift your spirit, awaken your consciousness and push you to the edge of your greatness.”

“You don’t have to act strong when you are strong. It is only those who are strong enough to risk being broken that are truly unbreakable.”

“We are all strangers to our hidden potential until we confront problems that reveal our capabilities.”

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”

“I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.”