With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

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.

I hope my forgiveness reminds you, Of the part you forgot to break in me.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

All women are natural born espionage agents.

For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit and it's there.

As you get older you also start to lose your anger a bit.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

And either victory, or else a grave.