Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.

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 world is on fire time is a bomb.Ten thousand years are not enoughWhen so much remains to be done

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I'm not graceful either. I have no rhythm, I'm never on top.

Those who remain silent are responsible.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist.

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make

We were just drinking some joint juice earlier.

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.