The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

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.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

I hit two trees and fell down a ditch. And that was just walking from the lodge.

We're going to stand up to China, we're going to stop their currency manipulation and product dumping, which is killing us.

Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred.

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.