The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.