I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Why can't we all just get along?

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!

Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.