Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

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.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'

When your eyes go, and your legs go, and your fans go; then it's time for you to go too.

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.