“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

“To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.”

“I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure. I have suffered defeat. I have created miscalculations. I have even abandoned victory, and fallen in shame. I can claim my arrogance. I can claim my ignorance. I can claim my naiveté. However, the creation of those possibilities were simply due to a lack of understanding of who I was. I have conquered my Id. I have conquered my Ego. I have conquered my Spirituality. I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure, but because I have mastered the principles of nothing, possibility, and uncertainty, failure simply tags along with me, unable to grasp my glory.”

“I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but the blow them all out of proportion!”

“My silence was not a lack of passion, but an inability to even draw a breath.”

“I watched the jealousy between them grow, and felt it was none of my fault--only Momma's! As everything wrong in my life was her fault.”