Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

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.

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Teach yourself to thankfully receive all that God gives you as evidence of His love and faithfulness, and then you'll find it easier to trust Him next time.

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.