The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

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.

The heavenly Father is the Father to the fatherless.

Character determines fate.

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

We thought, you know, this will just be kind of low-key. And no one will ever know we're here, and we're tucked back in.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!

There is still consciousness in hip hop.

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.