I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

That's what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it's eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

I hope to encourage people to take flight on their mats, in their lives, and in their hearts.

Empathy before education.

The unlived life is not worth examining.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.