The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.

When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.