They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.