The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

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

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.