[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

- Adam Johnson

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

- Adam Johnson

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

- Adam Johnson

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

- Adam Johnson

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

- Adam Johnson

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

- Adam Johnson

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

- Adam Johnson

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

- Adam Johnson

Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you do…

- Adam Johnson