I'm completely done at this point. It came to a point where I said to myself, 'Why I am doing this?' I've seen and heard of too many deaths, especially those in my profession.

There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. During an ambush, you're praying for everything and anything you can think of.

It was surreal. I watched it unfold before my eyes, and I said to myself, 'This is it. This is the picture.

That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.