"A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live."

"I hope I have important things to say."

"I want to reclaim who I am."

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before."

"Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble."

"The seeds of triumph are sown in the quiet mornings when no one is watching. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces."