When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

I focused, rather embarrassingly, on his chest which was rising and falling slowly. I left teeth marks!

Stick to love

Energy should be used to check out stuff and think on them... So far I used it to criticize victims and killers... So far it's awesome job.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train every day, and I can control my performance.

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.

Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.