For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.

In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.