“The moment you killed something – a living creature or a false hope – was the moment you came of age. Loss of innocence wasn’t a passive experience that happened to you. It was something you gave up.”

“Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.”

“You gain confidence and grow stronger by every experience in which you really push yourself to do something you didn't think you could do.”

“When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.”

“Dreams begin when you stop to pick up the penny - you realize the continual effort you must endure to have something worth obtaining.”

“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.”

“Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.”