I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.