Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness

This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.