Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.