"I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it."

"I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body."

"I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet."

"Imitation is the sincerest form of pain."

"Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare."

"The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs."

"He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'"