“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”

“But I believe there is no difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.”

“It was the perfect time and place for an inherently timid person like him to express hisinner pervert by peeing in public.”

“Be the kind of person who catches the shit before it hits the fan, not the one who scrapes it off afterwards.”

“Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.”

“The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)”