“It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.”

“Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.”

“But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.”

“It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.”

“The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.”

“What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.”