For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Make peace with what is.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

When you celebrate a person, you are celebrating the creator of that person

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

Putting a photo into your LinkedIn stream increases engagement up to 90%.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

For we put the power in the people.