I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

God of peace, you are at the center of my life, a strong refuge of peace in the whirlwind of my pain. I look to you for strength and a constant assurance of hope.

No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today— knowing there’s a garden of beauty that awaits me.

I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

Drink more water and walk in a relaxed manner.

By the light of your stars, heal me.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

I want to study human... madness... cruelty... agression... anger... craziness... and other features... I want to find how far can they get!

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

Great opportunities come to all but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ... to watch what each day brings.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

I'd love to get a chance to talk shop with Joss Whedon. That's pretty high up there on the list.