Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.

— Dan Groat

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

— Dan Groat

Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society’s so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I’m not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the making and spending of money. I know it’s not just me.

— Dan Groat

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

— Dan Groat

Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

— Dan Groat

Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

— Dan Groat

Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.

— Dan Groat

Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.

— Dan Groat

Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys.

— Dan Groat

Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they are, and the more power and money they need.

— Dan Groat