This in essence is my goal. To set an example by doing what is good. If I live openly and honestly, I set an example of virtue, humanness, restoration, and healing. I give others permission to join me on my journey despite the fear of failure or the rejection it might elicit when they know they are not alone in their experience. The more of us who amass the courage to embark openly on this path, the more normal this experience becomes, effectively eliminating the tactic of shame and isolation that the enemy so often uses to cause us to falter.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

So justice while she winks at crimes,Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Samuel Butler (poet), Hudibras (

Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Jane Austen

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Robert Benchley

Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

Wavy Gravy

In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism.

Spiro T. Agnew

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.

Kirstie Alley

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Og Mandino

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Susan Sarandon

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Cheryl Strayed