The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Make peace with what is.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.

When I was interviewing Beth as a potential flatmate, I asked her about her hobbies. She said she enjoyed cooking for others. I asked her when she could move in.

Yes we'll rally round the flag boys we'll rally once again Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom We will rally from the hillside we'll gather from the plain Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.