“You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.”

“Life is about choices, and you have the ability to choose. You always have had this ability. I suggest that not only do you have the ability, you have the responsibility to make choices for yourself. It is your life, and you are in the driver's seat, if you choose to be.”

“Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.”

“Get plugged in at your church. Find a way to invest yourself. Let's change the church's problem from 'Where do we find the help we need?' to 'What do we do with all the help we have?' The revolution begins now; and it starts with you.”

“You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things”

“Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.”