“That was the advantage of a young mind--believing was easier.”

“I BELIEVE!!!!!!!"- Johnny”

“Pain or perspective, that's the choice.'. . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.”

“Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.”

“Not wonderful that you've forgotten, mind you. Wonderful that you have so much to discover.”

“The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.”

“...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.”