I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Make peace with what is.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

We can only live life when we understand life.

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.

Who can understand the covert world of the emotions, the secret life of the mind?

Champions are made and not born. Champion’s feat are acquired and not inherited, earned and not transferred, attained and not deposited

If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life.

As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.