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.

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.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

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

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.

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.