Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.