Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.

There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.