However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

...we can love someone without understanding that person.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.

Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

You two want to get a room?" Dean asked."We already have one, " Lucy answered.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Politicians don't create jobs.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.