"I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly."

"Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed."

"Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid."

"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."

"I hope you suffer exactly as I did. Resilience is forged in suffering."

"It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own I had just grown up with it."