Susan Sontag - Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Margo Jefferson - Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

Jacques Yves Cousteau - The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Gene Roddenberry - The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Corrie Ten Boom - Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon - Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Adam Smith - Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Susan L. Taylor - Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Winnie the Pooh - If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Francois Fenelon - Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

A. A. Milne - “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

Susan Gale - “A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.”

Richard Burton - False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Henri Nouwen - I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Chuck Palahniuk - Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Brian Quinn - I have no use for Valentine's Day, with its limited menu and cramped seating.