Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

anger and jeaously are first cousins!

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.

I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.

It's a give and take relationship with my fans. They give me love and adoration, and I take it from them.