To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.

The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.

If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.

Do human beings have an infinite amount of energy with which to resist death? It is kinder and more accurate to say that they fought until they had no more fight left in them.

The suicidal lead shame-drenched lives.

I’m not God, and I can’t always offer chances. I’m not sure if this won’t be your last.

The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.