It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

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

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

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