The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.'

We salute the rank not the man

Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.

People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.

Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot.

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face.

The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.