“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”

“What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”

“It's the basic truth of the human condition: everybody lies.”

“Pain makes us make bad decisions. Fear or pain is almost as big of a motivator.”

“People say time changes things, but it’s not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were.”

“You got three choices in life: be good, get good or give up.”

“Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them.”