Some people who are recovering from depression want to use the lessons they're learned in coping with depression and their empathy for people with depression. Others want their career to have nothing to do with depression.

If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Liberalism's key principle is to redistribute wealth from the haves to the have nots. That takes money from the entities with the greatest potential to improve society (for example, corporations that create jobs, invent life-saving medicines, etc.) and redistributes it to the people, whom on average, will never contribute more to society than to hold a menial job.

Behaviorism is sometimes criticized as encouraging unethical behavior. For example, most organizations offer rewards for increasing revenue and threat of punishment, perhaps firing if you don't "make your number."

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.