If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

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.

The simple things in life last a lot longer in your heart

Move on. Walk forward into the light.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

I was part of the journey of a remarkable man [Barack Obama] who did remarkable things.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear