Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

It's been great getting better with you.

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.