I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.

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.

Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him.

Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.