Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.