It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.
Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word. . . which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'
Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.
Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. Depression is awakening each morning feeling as if someone near and dear and closely related died the night before. Bad news. Don't tempt depression.
Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.
Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.
I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.
Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.
Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.