I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.

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.

Find time to meditate and see how you can improve your life and achieve your goals

...everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

God is limitless awareness. There, now I have told you everything I know about God ... a lot of good it did you.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.