And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.