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

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.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Wisdom is indispensable in the fulfillment of purpose".

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.