Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do

What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.

I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.

Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

Before a baby is born, you have a baby shower, not a fetus shower.

Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.

Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace

Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.

We can't feel safe because we are not safe. (on Fulham, 2004-5 season)

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend.