My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.

The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.

To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change.

The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

What I teach the people many times is that attitude and attention will determine the whole course of our lives. Get rid of fear and that is all you ever have to get rid of. Fear of anything at all.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.