Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

Imagination is a sweet memory.

Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.

Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

I just think women should support women.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.