For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?

Well, you know, it's really been, you know, quite a trip for me.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.

Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another.

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

Age is a number on a piece of paper.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.