I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

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 pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

You’re not beautiful, ” he said. “Your profile said beautiful. You kind of overreached on that one.

The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.

For me, if I get up and don't meditate and don't eat something before having caffeine, I go from 0 to 10 on the stress scale.

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.