Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.