Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

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.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.

The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.