We can love someone without understanding that person.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

...we can love someone without understanding that person.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.

This strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry its divided aims.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.