Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say "I used everything you gave me."

Quickness is the essence of the war.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.