Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

Strive to be more than number one—strive to be the greatest number one.

There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.