As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.

You've got to keep things flying.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.