Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

But a living is not a life.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.