 We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world. |
| Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. |
| There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart. |
| I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid. |
| My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you. |
| I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity. |
| I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it. |
| I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid. |
