Depression means that you have no point of view.

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.

It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.

In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ...

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.