Every organization does good and bad things.

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.

Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

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