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.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

One of my favorite things: good conversation with good friends.

In one level, Om is the self-organizing power of the universe and self-awareness is the process to access that power.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

Bryant Gumbel is thrilled about his CBS deal and can't wait to start alienating the staff of an entirely new network.

Love is the easiest and most effective way to begin our search for self-realization.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

The world can get a bit ugly sometimes.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.