I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

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.

The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.

Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work

I won’t stop until I can look at myself in the mirror in love with the person I see.

Just get it down on paper, and then we’ll see what to do with it.

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.