Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe 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 wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older and made me amazing

Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.

You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.