Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.