Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

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.

It's war that makes generals

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

If our minds and hearts are into it, we can be a heck of a team. We can beat anybody.

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.