I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

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.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

I will learn, the opportunity will come.

You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.

I watch a lot of astronaut movies....Mostly Star Wars. And even Han and Chewie use a checklist.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.