I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true.

Many couples spend a great deal of time planning their wedding, but little time planning their marriage.

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

Hem, ' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

There's always been this implied promise - and it probably was stated somewhere - that Hillary Clinton was gonna be thanked.