When You Allow A Person's Words To

We All Have A Social Mask, Right? We Put It On, We Go Out, Put Our Best Foot Forward, Our Best Image. But Behind That Social Mask Is A Personal Truth, What We Really, Really Believe About Who We Are And What We're Capable Of.

Like An Enemy I Knew As Intimately As Any Friend, I Came To Know The Nagging, Constant Emptiness Of The Incongruent Life. I Ignored Myself And Lived For People, Purposes, And Goals That Weren't My Own. I Betrayed Who I Was And Instead Accepted A Fictional Substitute That Was Defined From The Outside In.

If You Want More, You Have To Require More From Yourself.

If Your Neighbor Has A Completely Different View On Abortion, Gay Marriage, Stem Cell Research, All Of Those Things, You Still Are Both Americans. Neither One Of You Is Necessarily More Patriotic Than The Other. Neither Loves Their Country Any More Than The Other One Does.

A Lot Of People Do Have Tragic Childhoods. But You Know What? Get Over It.