I'm fearful and anxious for my family in ways that I've never been fearful or anxious for myself. I'm completely vulnerable to their pain, both physi….

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy..

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance.

There's no love without pain..

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside..

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness..

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers..

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reaso….

I understand Twitter much more than I understand Tumblr..

I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where ….

I have never voted in my life..

Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered fro….

You have only one life, make the most of it.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer..

I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Ther….

You're either living or you're dead..

Sit up straight, listen and participate..

Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of the future. We are….

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception..

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go..

The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness di….