If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...

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.

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.

Saying good-bye properly afforded me a measure of peace. It was a binding of a different sort, absent of the earth's power, but still hard proof that there is magic yet in the world.

Committed to lead from the heart I appreciate a free spirit and do not follow idealistic rulebook.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Let's face it, the U.S. government is woefully, woefully behind in all of its policies that affect the use of technology.