“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

The Government’s first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date.