I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Never forsake your motherland.

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.