The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

It's easy to feel depressed by focusing on problems. Count your blessings while others are adding up their worries and you will be much happier. Attitude is EVERYTHING!

Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.