I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

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.

Never let your regrets outnumber your dreams

Why of course it's unlikely!' I said. 'Oh, by far!The awesome-est things in the world often are!

The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.

All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.