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

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind.

Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

On the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

The most recent studies both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic — something determined at conception.

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.