I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

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.

Dreamers dream the dream, Artists live it.

It made her want to have his babies and give him both her kidneys.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

August is a wicked month.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.