Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

Don’t allow your feelings to drive the car

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.

If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

Believe the best of everybody.

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.