I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

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

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.