Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

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.

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.

Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.

Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.