We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

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.

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 tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.

love is not a race 1st 2nd 3rd....Love Is Only LoVE, It come From Inside and Love Is Being In us!!!!

Perfection is doing all that you could. And there's not a single thing more you can do.

Society is our extended mind and body.

The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

I think if Donald Trump should become commander in chief, we all want that in a leader, somebody who is able to fight back.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.