Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

I know I can be very standoffish . . .

I buy thousands of books a year.