With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Make peace with what is.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...

There is no such thing as being too successful. There are always some greater heights to climb.

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Infinite mercy flows continually But you're asleep and can't see it.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.