Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.