In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

A life dedicated to serving others is the life we should all aspire to live.

Could anyone fully understand the wonders of how a baby develops in the womb of a woman? This is the mystery about birth. Birth is by divine power of God.

I don’t think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope.

Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.

Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

Expand your inner circle to include those who can challenge your thinking and escalate you to unreached heights of success.